The Pathfinder project makes inventive use of relational database technology--originally developed to process data of strictly tabular shape--to construct efficient database-suppo...
A lot of research has been conducted by the database community on methods and techniques for efficient XPath processing, with great success. Despite the progress made, significant...
The association of timestamps with various data items such as tuples or attribute values is fundamental to the management of time-varying information. Using intervals in timestamp...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. This structured data is increasingly exposed using information extraction systems, which generate structured relation...
Abstract. In the last years, extending OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) systems with spatial and temporal features has attracted the attention of of the GIS (Geographic Informa...