The ability to automatically record the marks applied to paper documents on their electronic originals would preserve the information represented by those annotations. Users could...
Statistics play an important role in influencing the plans produced by a query optimizer. Traditionally, optimizers use statistics built over base tables and assume independence b...
This paper presents a detailed branch characterization of an Oracle based commercial on-line transaction processing workload, Oracle Database Benchmark (ODB), running on an IA32 p...
The longstanding problem of automatic table interpretation still illudes us. Its solution would not only be an aid to table processing applications such as large volume table conve...
In a combined negotiation in e-commerce, the user is interested in many goods or services and consequently engages in many negotiations at the same time. The negotiations are inde...