Current object database management systems support user-defined conversion functions to update the database once the schema has been modified. Two main strategies are possible whe...
Continuous spatial queries posted within an environment of moving objects produce as their results a time-varying set of objects. In the most ambitious case both queries and data ...
Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Wei-...
Indexing moving objects is a fundamental issue in spatiotemporal databases. In this paper, we propose an adaptive Lazy-Update Grid-based index (LUGrid, for short) that minimizes th...
Lazy replication is a popular technique for improving the performance and availability of database systems. Although there are concurrency control techniques which guarantee seria...
Strong consistency is an important correctness property for replicated databases. It ensures that each transaction accesses the latest committed database state as provided in centr...