The M-tree is a paged, dynamically balanced metric access method that responds gracefully to the insertion of new objects. Like many spatial access methods, the M-tree's perfo...
We study the problem of generating synthetic databases having declaratively specified characteristics. This problem is motivated by database system and application testing, data ...
Open-ended spoken interactions are typically characterised by both structural complexity and high levels of uncertainty, making dialogue management in such settings a particularly...
Several techniques that compute the join between two spatial datasets have been proposed during the last decade. Among these methods, some consider existing indices for the joined...
There is much effort to develop comprehensive support for the storage and querying of XML data in database management systems. The major developers have extended their systems to h...
Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Andrzej Hoppe, Wenbin M...