Ontology, an explicit specification of shared conceptualization, has been increasingly used to define formal data semantics and improve data reusability and interoperability in en...
Column-oriented database system architectures invite a reevaluation of how and when data in databases is compressed. Storing data in a column-oriented fashion greatly increases th...
We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...
Abstract— There are many applications in which users interactively access huge tree data by repeating set-based navigations. In this paper, we focus on label-specific/wildcard c...
—Efficient management of massive data sets is a key aspect in typical grid and e-science applications. To this end, the benefits of employing database technologies in such appl...