In this paper we develop a new method for solving queries on semistructured data. The main idea is to see a database as a Kripke Transition System (a model) and a query as a formul...
Time is one of the most difficult aspects to handle in real world applications such as database systems. Relational database management systems proposed by Codd offer very little ...
Abstract. We discuss, compare and relate some old and some new models for incomplete and probabilistic databases. We characterize the expressive power of c-tables over infinite dom...
An input to the conceptual database design phase contains a description of the target database. This description is usually given in some natural language, for instance in English...
: Multimedia applications nowadays are becoming prevalent. In the past the relational database model was generalized to the multimedia database model. More recently the relational ...
Shi-Kuo Chang, Lei Zhao, Shenoda Guirguis, Rohit K...