Abstract. The similarity join has become an important database primitive to support similarity search and data mining. A similarity join combines two sets of complex objects such t...
A system has been developed permitting database queries over data extracted from a CAD system where the query result is returned back to the CAD for visualization and analysis. Th...
Class algebra provides a natural framework for sharing of ISA hierarchies between users that may be unaware of each other's definitions. This permits data from relational dat...
We discuss and prove the correctness of a transaction model for mobile computing. In our transaction model, we incorporate a prewrite operation (before a write) which does not upda...
Object-Relational and Object-Oriented DBMSs allow users to invoke time-consuming ("expensive") methods in their queries. When queries containing these expensive methods a...