Querying non-conventional data is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is the ability to qu...
Exploring alternative options is at the heart of the requirements and design processes. Different alternatives contribute to different degrees of achievement of non-functional goa...
In this paper we describe a prototype implementation of updateable views called “SBQL Views”. The prototype follows a novel approach to view updates based on the Stack-Based Ap...
The ODMG proposal has helped to focus the work on object-oriented databases (OODBs) onto a common object model and query language. Nevertheless there are several shortcomings of t...
We study KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Databases) processes on OLAP (multidimensional and multilevel) data from a query point of view. Focusing on association rule mining, we consid...