Processing XML documents in multi-user database management environments requires a suitable storage model of XML data, support of typical XML document processing (XDP) interfaces, ...
A comprehensive video retrieval system should be able to accommodate and utilize various (complementary) description data in facilitating effective retrieval. In this paper, we ad...
Shermann S.-M. Chan, Qing Li, Yi Wu, Yueting Zhuan...
The join is the most important, but also the most time consuming operation in relational database systems. We implemented the parallel Hybrid Hash Join algorithm on a PC-cluster a...
Service oriented architectures (SOAs) provide an architectural paradigm to develop and evolve enterprise information systems. A key feature of SOAs is compensability of services. ...
The HiPAC project is investigating active, time-constrained databasemanagment. An active DBMS is one which automatically executes specified actions when speciifed conditions arise...