Based on a systematic study of the semantics of temporal attributes of entities, this paper provides new guidelines for the design of temporal relational databases. The notions of ...
Constraint databases and geographic information systems share many applications. However, constraint databases can go beyond geographic information systems in efficient spatial and...
Abstract. The aim of the article is to summarize and compare approaches of design and architecture of native XML databases. We discuss our results accomplished by utilizing the INE...
: We overview three major types of GIS-oriented spatiotemporal databases: (1) point-based, (2) region-based, and (3) constraint-based. We analyze the relationship among these spati...
We present a logic programming based dialogue system that enables the access in natural language to the heterogeneous external relational databases of the Évora University. The p...
Salvador Abreu, Paulo Quaresma, Luis Quintano, Ire...