Tuning tools attempt to configure a database to achieve optimal performance for a given workload. Selecting an optimal set of physical structures is computationally hard since it ...
Ioannis Alagiannis, Debabrata Dash, Karl Schnaitte...
XML database systems are expected to handle increasingly complex queries over increasingly large and highly structured XML databases. An important problem that needs to be solved ...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
In digital humanities projects, particularly for historical research and cultural heritage, GIS has played an increasingly important role. However, most implementations have conce...
Fredric C. Gey, Ryan Shaw, Ray R. Larson, Barry Pa...
The complexity of deploying high-performance spatial structures in transactional DBMS environments has motivated researchers to experiment with the idea of reusing the effort inve...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2009 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...