Nowadays, there are an emergence of spatial or geographic data stored in several and heterogeneous databases, mostly in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The diversity of GIS a...
Background: The analysis of biological data is greatly enhanced by existing or emerging databases. Most existing databases, with few exceptions are not designed to easily support ...
S. A. Kirov, X. Peng, E. Baker, D. Schmoyer, B. Zh...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to store and manipulate text data in multiple languages simultaneously. Current database systems do suppor...
The move from the current compartmentalised systems into an interoperable environment is the central challenge facing digital development this decade. In the quest for a semantic ...
– In the past few years considerable demand for user oriented multimedia information systems has developed. These systems must provide a rich set of functionality so that new, co...