Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
Data sets in astronomy are growing to enormous sizes. Modern astronomical surveys provide not only image data but also catalogues of millions of objects (stars, galaxies), each ob...
Bilkis J. Ferdosi, Hugo Buddelmeijer, Scott Trager...
Many problems require recursively speci ed types ofdata and a collection of tools that operate on those data. Over time, these problems evolve so that the programmer must extend t...
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Matthias Felleisen, Daniel ...
A shared data structure is lock-free if its operations do not require mutual exclusion. If one process is interrupted in the middle of an operation, other processes will not be pr...
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...