Topological relations between geographic regions are of interest in many applications. When the exact boundaries of regions are not available, such relations can be established by...
Steven Schockaert, Philip D. Smart, Alia I. Abdelm...
Unity is an architecture for integrating relational databases that performs three processes: metadata capture, semantic integration, and query formulation and execution. The found...
We present LegoDB, a cost-based XML storage mapping engine that automatically explores a space of possible XML-to-relational mappings and selects an efficient mapping for a given ...
This paper describes the overall architecture and design aspects of a hybrid relational and XML database system called System RX. We believe that such a system is fundamental in t...
Kevin S. Beyer, Roberta Cochrane, Vanja Josifovski...
Relational index structures, as for instance the Relational Interval Tree, the Relational R-Tree, or the Linear Quadtree, support efficient processing of queries on top of existin...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...