Spatial and temporal data have become ubiquitous in many application domains such as the Geosciences or life sciences. Sophisticated database management systems are employed to ma...
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
The current widespread use of location-based services and GPS technologies has revived interest in very fast and scalable shortest path queries. We introduce a new shortest path q...
The recent literature has provided a solid theoretical foundation for the use of schema mappings in data-exchange applications. Following this formalization, new algorithms have b...
Bruno Marnette, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Papotti
Ranking is a fundamental operation in data analysis and decision support, and plays an even more crucial role if the dataset being explored exhibits uncertainty. This has led to m...