Database support of time-varying phenomena typically assumes that entities change in a linear fashion. Many phenomena, however, change cyclically over time. Examples include monsoo...
Kathleen Hornsby, Max J. Egenhofer, Patrick J. Hay...
The successful development of any geographic information system project needs the careful design and implementation of spatial databases via conceptual and logical data-modeling. T...
In its current state, VRML does not provide support for interaction and on-line access to databases, even though these are two fundamental issues for business applications. We hav...
The practical implementation and use of a mediator for fixed income securities analysis demonstrated the potential for extending the application of conceptual modeling from the sys...
Many commercial database systems maintain histograms to summarize the contents of relations and permit efficient estimation of query result sizes and access plan costs. Although s...
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Peter J. H...