The issues of schema evolution and temporal object models are generally considered to be orthogonal and are handled independently. However, to properly model applications that nee...
Iqbal A. Goralwalla, Duane Szafron, M. Tamer Ö...
We envision that in some wireless sensor network applications, such as environmental monitoring, assisted living, and industrial control, handheld devices will be used from time t...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
In this paper we propose a hierarchical clustering engine, called SnakeT, that is able to organize on-the-fly the search results drawn from 16 commodity search engines into a hier...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to manage data in multiple languages simultaneously. While current database systems do support the storag...