Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
Abstract. In the consumer market, there has been an increasing interest in portable navigation systems in the last few years. These systems usually work on digital map databases st...
Jonghyun Suh, Sungwon Jung, Martin Pfeifle, Khoa T...
Abstract. Recently, the database and AI research communities have paid increased attention to ontologies. The main motivating reason is that ontologies promise solutions for comple...
Abstract. In relational database management systems indexes are used to accelerate specific queries. The selection of indexes is an important task when tuning a database which is ...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
Current relational databases require that a database schema exist prior to data entry and require manual optimization for best performance. We describe the query optimization tech...
Scott M. Meyer, Jutta Degener, John Giannandrea, B...