This paper discusses a realization of object persistence in a CORBA-based distributed system. In our approach, persistence of CORBA objects is accomplished by the integration of t...
Magic sets rewriting is a well-known optimization heuristic for complex decision-support queries. There can be many variants of this rewriting even for a single query, which diffe...
Praveen Seshadri, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Hamid Pir...
The increasing volume of data stored as XML documents makes fragmentation techniques an alternative to the performance issues in query processing. Fragmented databases are feasible...
Guilherme Figueiredo, Vanessa P. Braganholo, Marta...
We present a framework which allows the user to access and manipulate data uniformly, regardless of whether it resides in a database or in the file system (or in both). A key issu...
Making a database system active entails developing an expressive event specification language with well-defined semantics, algorithms for the detection of composite events, and an...
Sharma Chakravarthy, V. Krishnaprasad, Eman Anwar,...