RESEARCH AREA: Constraint databases

Both data modelling and architectural issues have been investigated. Specifically, the research activities on this topic include:

• Constraint data models for spatial data
• Indexing techniques for constraint databases

People

• Barbara Catania

Selected publications

• A. Belussi, E. Bertino, and B. Catania. An Extended Algebra for Constraint Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 10(5), September/October 1998. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California.
• E. Bertino, B. Catania, and B. Shidlovsky. Towards Two-Dimensional Indexing for Constraint Databases. Information Processing Letters, 64(1):1--8, 1998. Elsevier Science-North Holland, Amsterdam.
• E. Bertino and B. Catania. A Constraint-based Approach to Shape Management in Multimedia Databases. ACM Multimedia Journal, 6(1):2--16, 1998. ACM Press-Springer, Berlin.
• E. Bertino and B. Catania. Constraints and Optimization in Database Systems: a Survey and Research Issues. International Journal of Information Technology, 1(2):111-143, 1995. World Scientific.