Multimedia retrieval is going to play an increasingly important role in the future. Since the availability of digital media seems ever rising, not only the retrieval performance i...
Large XML data files, or XML databases, are now a common way to distribute scientific and bibliographic data, and storing such data efficiently is an important concern. A number o...
With recent advances in storage and network technology it is now possible to provide movie on demand (MOD) service, eliminating the inflexibility inherent in todays broadcast cabl...
Large-scale network monitoring systems require efficient storage and consolidation of measurement data. Relational databases and popular tools such as the Round-Robin Database sho...
Data synopsis is a lossy compressed representation of data stored into databases that helps the query optimizer to speed up the query process, e.g. time to retrieve the data from ...