The application of information retrieval techniques in interactive environments requires systems capable of efficiently processing vague queries. To reach reasonable response tim...
Complex and data-intensive database queries mandate parallel processing strategies to achieve sufficiently short response times. In praxis, parallel database processing is mostly b...
Query processing in database systems has developed beyond mere exact matching of attribute values. Scoring database objects and retrieving only the top k matches or Pareto-optimal...
The ROL system is a novel deductive object-oriented database system that has been implemented at the University of Regina. It provides a uniform rule-based declarative language fo...
OGSA-DQP is a Distributed Query Processing system for the Grid. It uses the OGSA-DAI framework for querying individual databases and adds on top of it an infrastructure to perform ...