We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core ...
Although an optimistic approach has been shown to be better suited than locking protocols for real-time database systems (RTDBS), it has the problems of unnecessary restarts and h...
TalkMine is an adaptive recommendation system which is both content-based and collaborative, and further allows the crossover of information among multiple databases searched by u...
Hyper-programming is a technology only available in persistent systems, since hyper-program source code contains both text and links to persistent objects. A hyper-programming sys...
Evangelos Zirintsis, Graham N. C. Kirby, Ronald Mo...
Databases have achieved orders-of-magnitude performance improvements by changing the layout of stored data – for instance, by arranging data in columns or compressing it before ...