Data intensive applications on clusters often require requests quickly be sent to the node managing the desired data. In many applications, one must look through a sorted tree str...
Background: The MEDLINE database contains over 12 million references to scientific literature, ut 3/4 of recent articles including an abstract of the publication. Retrieval of ent...
Abstract. In the area of information retrieval, the dimension of document vectors plays an important role. Firstly, with higher dimensions index structures suffer the "curse o...
In this paper we present a storage method for sets of first order logic terms in a relational database using function symbols based indexing method of Discrimination trees. This is...
We describe an algorithm for estimating the number of page fetches for a partial or complete scan of a B-tree index. The algorithm obtains estimates for the number of page fetches ...