Abstract. Many different index structures have been proposed for spatial databases to support efficient query processing. However, most of these index structures suffer from an exp...
Abstract. We study the following problem in a sovereign informationsharing setting: How to ensure that the individual participants, driven solely by self-interest, will behave hone...
Abstract. The retrieval of objects from a multimedia database employs a measure which defines a similarity score for every pair of objects. The measure should effectively follow th...
Abstract. We describe MIDST, an implementation of the model management operator ModelGen, which translates schemas from one model to another, for example from OO to SQL or from SQL...
Paolo Atzeni, Paolo Cappellari, Philip A. Bernstei...
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...