The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
Visitors enter a website through a variety of means, including web searches, links from other sites, and personal bookmarks. In some cases the first page loaded satisfies the visi...
Justin Brickell, Inderjit S. Dhillon, Dharmendra S...
Advanced object-oriented applications require the management of schema versions, in order to cope with changes in the structure of the stored data. Two types of versioning have be...
Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Maria Rita Scala...
This paper addresses challenges to resource managers' use of scientific research, and reports strategies and informatics tools to ameliorate those challenges. Our work involv...
Natalie Kopytko, Judith Bayard Cushing, Lee Zeman,...
Multimedia database systems (MMDBSs) have to be capable to handle efficiently time-dependent and timeindependent data, and to support Quality-of-Service (QoS). To support continuo...