Scientific data of importance to biologists in the Humitn Genome Project resides not only in conventional da.tabases, but in structured files maintained in a number of different f...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Kyle Hart, G. Ch...
Spatial indexing has been one of the active focus areas in recent database research. Several variants of Quadtree and R-tree indexes have been proposed in database literature. In ...
Kothuri Venkata Ravi Kanth, Siva Ravada, Daniel Ab...
The exponential growth of the web and the extended use of database management systems in widely distributed information systems has brought to the fore the need for seamless interc...
Partitioning is the dominant technique to transmit large files in peer-to-peer networks. A peer can redistribute each part immediately after its download. BitTorrent combines thi...
Arne Vater, Christian Schindelhauer, Christian Ort...
We present a tool for querying a set of points for geometric shapes. This tool was developed as part of a larger project studying the architecture of 13th century French churches....
Kenneth A. Ross, David Vespe, David Hessing, Prana...