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ER
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Modelling Functional Requirements in Spatial Design
Abstract. We demonstrate the manner in which high-level design requirements, e.g., as they correspond to the commonsensical conceptualisation of expert designers, may be formally s...
Mehul Bhatt, Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz, Frank Dylla
EJC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Center Fragments for Upscaling and Verification in Database Semantics
The notion of a fragment was coined by Montague 1974 to illustrate the formal handling of certain puzzles, such as de dicto/de re, in a truth-conditional semantics for natural lan...
Roland Hausser
ICDE
2005
IEEE
107views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Implementation of an Agent Architecture for Automated Index Tuning
It has been important to extend database management systems to support new requirements of applications and administration. We focus in this paper on the automatic tuning feature,...
Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costa, S&ea...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
161views Database» more  SIGMOD 2000»
14 years 1 months ago
Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables
We investigate the problem of using materialized views to answer SQL queries. We focus on modern decision-support queries, which involve joins, arithmetic operations and other (po...
Markos Zaharioudakis, Roberta Cochrane, George Lap...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
148views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Consumer-Centric and Privacy-Preserving Identity Management for Distributed E-Health Systems
A new framework of privacy-preserving identity management for distributed e-Health systems is proposed. Utilizing a consumer-centric approach, the healthcare consumer maintains a ...
Richard Au, Peter Croll