The study of art history is an exciting and rewarding one, but one in which the student frequently encounters complex and difficult to understand concepts. Traditional methodologi...
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Database systems support recovery, providing high database availability. However, database applications may lose work because of a server failure. In particular, if a database serv...
Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet, Thomas Baby, Sanja...
The wide adoption of XML has increased the interest of the database community on tree-structured data management techniques. Querying capabilities are provided through tree-patter...
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