A virtual database system is software that provides unified access to multiple information sources. If the sources are overlapping in their contents and independently maintained,...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...
The complexity of deploying high-performance spatial structures in transactional DBMS environments has motivated researchers to experiment with the idea of reusing the effort inve...
Map labeling of point-feature is the problem of placing text labels to corresponding point features on a map in a way that minimizes overlaps while satisfying basic rules for the ...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Petr Vojtechovsk&yac...
On-line analytical processing (OLAP) provides tools to explore and navigate into data cubes in order to extract interesting information. Nevertheless, OLAP is not capable of expla...