We present a complete XPath cost-based optimization and execution framework and demonstrate its effectiveness and efficiency for a variety of queries and datasets. The framework i...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...
Modern object-relational database systems are capable of managing multimedia data, e.g. image, video and audio. In this paper we study how such universal database systems can be u...
Immortal DB builds transaction time database support into the SQL Server engine, not in middleware. Transaction time databases retain and provide access to prior states of a datab...
David B. Lomet, Roger S. Barga, Mohamed F. Mokbel,...
Wireless networked embedded terminals like personal digital assistants, cell-phones or sensor nodes are typically memory constrained devices. This limitation prevents the developm...
Emanuele Lattanzi, Andrea Acquaviva, Alessandro Bo...
Image based mail piece identification is a new technology for optimizing the postal sorting process. Exploiting the mail piece surface uniqueness, characteristic features are used...