I argue against trying to solve the problem of clustering objects into disk pages. Instead, I propose that objects be fetched in groups that may be specific to an application or ...
As multimedia becomes an integral part of collaborative systems, we must understand how to design such systems to support users’ rich set of existing interaction skills, rather ...
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Process-centered software engineering environments, such as Arcadia, impose a variety of requirements on database technology that to date have not been well supported by available...
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Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...