Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
Background: Complex biological database systems have become key computational tools used daily by scientists and researchers. Many of these systems must be capable of executing on...
Marko Srdanovic, Ulf Schenk, Michael Schwieger, Fa...
Apart from visualization tasks, three-dimensional (3D) data management features are not or only hardly available in current spatial database systems and Geographic Information Sys...
A wealth of information is available only in web pages, patents, publications etc. Extracting information from such sources is challenging, both due to the typically complex langu...
One of the most challenging aspects of managing a very large data warehouse is identifying how queries will behave before they start executing. Yet knowing their performance charac...
Archana Ganapathi, Harumi A. Kuno, Umeshwar Dayal,...