The large unstructured text collections demand full-text search capabilities from IR systems. Current systems typically allow users only to connect to a single database (or site) ...
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, Athanasios E. Papathanasio...
Data warehouses store materialized views over base data from external sources. Clients typically perform complex read-only queries on the views. The views are refreshed periodical...
Computer-based concurrent engineering of products, denoted as Virtual Engineering (VE), is used extensively to meet the requirements of product development. Current research deals...
One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...