-relational database systems, including iterative execution of complex query evaluation plans, the duality of sort- and hash-based set matching algorithms, types of parallel query execution and their implementation, and special operators for emerging database application domains.

algorithms for many combinatorial problems on graphs when the graph is constrained to be a partial k-tree for fixed k. These algorithms have practical applications in areas such as reliability, concurrent broadcasting and evaluation of queries in a relational database system. We determine the complexity

dictionaries taking this space only supported (yes/no) membership queries in O(1) time. In the cell probe model we can remove the O(lg lg m) additive term in the space bound, answering a question raised by Fich and Miltersen, and Pagh. We present extensions and applications of our indexable dictionary data

A number of effective error detection tools have been built in recent years to check if a program conforms to certain design rules. An important class of design rules deals with sequences of events associated with a set of related objects. This paper presents a language called PQL (Program Query

Many applications require the ability to manipulate sequences of data. We motivate the importance of sequence query processing, and present a framework for the optimization of sequence queries based on several novel techniques. These include query transformations, optimizations that utilize meta

Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of finding k nearest neighbors for moving query point (we call it k-NNMP). It is an important issue in both mobile computing research and real-life applications. The problem assumes that the query point is not static, as in k-nearest neighbor problem

Many new database application domains such as experimental sciences and medicine are characterized by large sequences as their main form of data. Using approximate representation can signifrcantly reduce the required storage and search space. A good choice of representation, can support a broad new

Time sequences appear in various application domainso Many applications require time sequences to be seen as continuous where implicit values can be derived from explicit values by arbitrary user-defined interpolation functions. This paper describes the implementation of an extended SELECT

Several variations of nearest neighbor (NN) query have been investigated by the database community. However, realworld applications often result in the formulation of new variations of the NN problem demanding new solutions. In this paper, we study an unexploited and novel form of NN queries named

similarity by specifying the similarity-preserving transformations, and the whole package is wrapped in a general query language. The framework can be "tuned" to the needs of a specific application domain, such as time sequences, molecules, text strings or images, by the choice of these languages