Semantics represents a major problem area for active databases inasmuch as (i) there is l framework for defining the abstract semantics of active rules, and (ii) the various syst...
Textual fields are commonly used in databases and applications to capture details that are difficult to formalize—comments, notes, and product descriptions. With the rise of t...
: In order to meet their temporal constraints, current applications such as Web-based services and electronic commerce use the technique of data replication. To take the replicatio...
Our study of a large set of scientific applications over the past three years indicates that the processing for multidimensional datasets is often highly stylized. The basic proce...
Chialin Chang, Renato Ferreira, Alan Sussman, Joel...
This tutorial provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedi...