Nowadays maintenance of database management systems (DBMSs) often requires offline operations for enhancement of functionality or security updates. This hampers the availability of...
Florian Irmert, Thomas Fischer, Frank Lauterwald, ...
Internet search engines have popularized the keywordbased search paradigm. While traditional database management systems offer powerful query languages, they do not allow keyword-...
Flash memory is becoming a major database storage in building embedded systems or portable devices because of its non-volatile, shock-resistant, power-economic nature, and fast acc...
Ever increasing environmental demands from customers, authorities and governmental organizations as well as new business control functions are integrated to environmental manageme...