Modern object-relational database systems are capable of managing multimedia data, e.g. image, video and audio. In this paper we study how such universal database systems can be u...
Abstract Sensor devices produce data that are unreliable, low-level, and seldom able to be used directly by applications. In this paper, we propose Metaphysical Data Independence (...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Ga...
: Over the recent years, very little effort has been made to give XPath a proper algebraic treatment. The only laudable exception is the Natix Algebra (NAL) which defines the tran...
A real-time database is a database in which both the data and the operations upon the data may have timing constraints. The design of this kind of database requires the introducti...
Nizar Idoudi, Claude Duvallet, Bruno Sadeg, Rafik ...
Preserving privacy has become a crucial requirement for operating a business that manages personal data. Hippocratic databases have been proposed to answer this requirement throug...