Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...
Semantic caching augments cached data with a semantic description of the data. These semantic descriptions can be used to improve execution time for similar queries by retrieving ...
Norvald H. Ryeng, Jon Olav Hauglid, Kjetil N&oslas...
Until recently, most data integration techniques involved central components, e.g., global schemas, to enable transparent access to heterogeneous databases. Today, however, with t...
We present a novel approach for black-box testing of database management systems (DBMS) using the Alloy tool-set. Given a database schema and an SQL query as inputs, our approach ...
Shadi Abdul Khalek, Bassem Elkarablieh, Yai O. Lal...
This paper presents a technique that is capable of supporting two major requirements for concurrency control in real-time databases: data temporal consistency, and data logical co...