Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are a ubiquitous and critical component of modern computing, and the result of decades of research and development in both academia and industr...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, James ...
Virtual machine monitors are becoming popular tools for the deployment of database management systems and other enterprise software applications. In this paper, we consider a commo...
Ahmed A. Soror, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, P...
With the recent and continuing advances in areas such as wireless communications and positioning technologies, mobile, locationbased services are becoming possible. Such services ...
Christian S. Jensen, Augustas Kligys, Torben Bach ...
The crawler engines of today cannot reach most of the information contained in the Web. A great amount of valuable information is "hidden" behind the query forms of onli...
Advanced applications in fields like electronic publishing and telecooperation face the problem of handling multimedia information. Conventional database systems do not offer adeq...