— When a database system is extended with the skyline operator, it is important to determine the most efficient way to execute a skyline query across tables with join operations...
Wen Jin, Michael D. Morse, Jignesh M. Patel, Marti...
Although the ant metaphor has been successfully applied to routing of data packets both in wireless and fixed networks, little is yet known about its applicability to the task of...
This paper presents a predictable and grouped genetic algorithm (PGGA) for job scheduling. The novelty of the PGGA is twofold: (1) a job workload estimati...
Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...
The data structures suitable for indexing of large spatial objects in databases are considered. Some generalizations of existing tree methods concerned approximation of spatial ob...