The DataLinks technology developed at IBM Almaden Research Center and now available in DB2 UDB 5.2 introduces a new data type called DATALINK for a database to reference and manag...
The performance of a database system depends strongly on the layout of database objects, such as indexes or tables, onto the underlying storage devices. A good layout will both ba...
Abstract. The challenge of building consistent, available, and scalable data management systems capable of serving petabytes of data for millions of users has confronted the data m...
Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Shyam Antony, Su...
The vision of dataspaces has been articulated as providing various of the benefits of classical data integration but with reduced up-front costs, which, combined with opportunitie...
Cornelia Hedeler, Khalid Belhajjame, Lu Mao, Norma...
Background: Ultrasound scanning uses the medical imaging format, DICOM, for electronically storing the images and data associated with a particular scan. Large health care facilit...
Will Stott, Andy Ryan, Ian J. Jacobs, Usha Menon, ...