Abstract Method invocation mechanism is one of the essential features in objectoriented programming languages. This mechanism contributes to data encapsulation and code reuse, but ...
: Spatial data types or algebras for database systems should (i) be fully general (which means, closed under set operations, hence e.g. a region value can be a set of polygons with...
Object-oriented database systems (ooDBMSs) are supposed to offer at least the functionality available in commercial relational DBMSs of today. One important consequence of this is...
Management of large data repositories integrated into the Grid poses new challenges for Grid research. There already exist several successful Data Grid projects addressing process...
Bernhard Fiser, Umut Onan, Ibrahim Elsayed, Peter ...
The semantic web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. Ontologies, a cornerstone of the semantic web,...
Anuradha Gali, Cindy X. Chen, Kajal T. Claypool, R...