The use of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to store and query XML data has attracted considerable interest with a view to leveraging their powerful and reliable da...
Passports and visas are currently undergoing a rapid change due to legislation being passed by authorities such as the US requirement that they should have machine readable biomet...
Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
Dozens of temporal extension of the relational data model and of the query language SQL have appeared in recent years. Recently, a committee formed by researchers from the academi...
Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of tuples returned by a query; it is a fundamentally important task in data management, used in query optimization, ...