Temporal databases assume a single line of time evolution. In other words, they support timeevolving data. However there are applications which require the support of temporal dat...
Linan Jiang, Betty Salzberg, David B. Lomet, Manue...
Inherent constraints play an important role in the semantic Xplain model. These constraints enable us to represent certain real world knowledge once for subsequent use in several ...
Multi-level transactions are a variant of open nested transactions in which the subtransactions correspond to operations at different levels of a layered system architecture. The ...
In an object-relational database management system, a query optimizer requires users to provide cost models of userdefined functions. The traditional approach is analytical, that...
The multidimensional, heterogeneous, and temporal nature of speech databases raises interesting challenges for representation and query. Recently, annotation graphs have been prop...