Abstract. The task of similarity search in multimedia databases is usually accomplished by range or k nearest neighbor queries. However, the expressing power of these "single-...
Over a traditional Database Management System (DBMS), the answer to an aggregate query is usually much smaller than the answer to a similar nonaggregate query. Therefore, we call ...
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find, in advance, a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such ...
We introduce a representation system for relational data based on algebraic factorisation using distributivity of product over union and commutativity of product and union. We giv...
Abstract: XML documents are widely used as a generic container for textual contents. As they are increasingly growing in size, XML databases have come up to efficiently store and q...