Qualitative spatial reasoning forms an important part of the commonsense reasoning required for building intelligent Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Previous research has c...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
One of the essential functions of natural language is to talk about spatial relationships between objects. Linguistic constructs can express highly complex, relational structures ...
Parisa KordJamshidi, Martijn van Otterlo, Marie-Fr...
There are principal differences between the relational model and XML's tree model. This causes problems in all cases where information from these two worlds has to be brought...
AGENDA is a tool set for testing relational database applications. An earlier prototype was targeted to applications consisting of a single query and included components for popul...