: Personalization includes the adaptation of database queries according to the user’s needs, wishes and situation. We examine the influence of the dparameter as powerful personal...
– In the past few years considerable demand for user oriented multimedia information systems has developed. These systems must provide a rich set of functionality so that new, co...
Cartography is one of the major application areas using geographical databases. Whether it is for the business of producing paper maps for sale, or whether it is for displaying map...
Data mining is increasingly performed by people who are not computer scientists or professional programmers. It is often done as an iterative process involving multiple ad-hoc tas...
In bitemporal databases, current facts and transaction states are modelled using a special value to represent the current time (such as a minimum or maximum timestamp or NULL). Pr...