Abstract. In this paper we present a new approach for studying aggregations in the context of database query languages. Starting from a broad de nition of aggregate function, we ad...
As we look to the future, and the prospect of a billion transistors on a chip, it seems inevitable that microprocessors will exploit having multiple parallel threads. To achieve t...
Software DSMs have been a research topic for over a decade. While good performance has been achieved in some cases, consistent performance has continued to elude researchers. This...
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) based on a dimensional view of data is being used increasingly for the purpose of analyzing very large amounts of data. To improve query perfo...
Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, Curtis ...
Abstract. Formal methods based on the mathematical theory of partially ordered sets (i.e., posets) have been used in the database field for the modelling of spatial data since many...