In the last few years an interest in native XML databases has surfaced. With other authors we argue that such databases need their own provisions for concurrency control since tra...
Searching the internet using the currently available searchengines is not satisfactory. Thetechniquesused there focus on the extraction of relevant informationdirectlyfrom the doc...
Physical database design is important for query performance in a shared-nothing parallel database system, in which data is horizontally partitioned among multiple independent node...
Jun Rao, Chun Zhang, Nimrod Megiddo, Guy M. Lohman
Ranking information retrieval (IR) systems with respect to their effectiveness is a crucial operation during IR evaluation, as well as during data fusion. This paper offers a no...
Materialized views and view maintenance are becoming increasingly important in practice. In order to satisfy different data currency and performance requirements, a number of view...
Latha S. Colby, Akira Kawaguchi, Daniel F. Lieuwen...