Increasingly, for extensibility and performance, specialpurpose application code is being integrated with database system code. Such application code has direct access to database...
Philip Bohannon, Rajeev Rastogi, S. Seshadri, Abra...
With the rapid growth of biomedical research databases, opportunities for scientific inquiry have expanded quickly and led to a demand for computational methods that can extract b...
Mohammed I. Rafiq, Martin J. O'Connor, Amar K. Das
Programmers need mechanisms to store application specific data that persists multiple program runs. To accomplish this task, they usually have to deal with storage specific code...
This paper presents an approach to answering queries over an ontology modelled using a description logic. The ontology acts as a global schema, providing a declarative description...
Martin Peim, Enrico Franconi, Norman W. Paton, Car...
We consider spatio-temporal databases supporting spatial objects with continuously changing position and extent, termed moving objects databases. We formally define a data model f...