Asynchronous IO (AIO) allows a process to continue to do other work while an IO operation initiated earlier completes. AIO allows a large number of random IO operations to be issu...
Suresh Iyengar, S. Sudarshan, Santosh Kumar 0002, ...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Relational index structures, as for instance the Relational Interval Tree, the Relational R-Tree, or the Linear Quadtree, support efficient processing of queries on top of existin...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the often-discus...
Querying semantically related data sources depends on the ability to map between their schemas. Unfortunately, in most cases matching between schema is still largely performed man...
Fabien Duchateau, Zohra Bellahsene, Mark Roantree,...