Knowledge discovery in databases has become an increasingly important research topic with the advent of wide area network computing. One of the crucial problems we study in this p...
: Previous multidimensional dynamic hashing schemes exhibit two obvious shortcomings. First, even for uniform record distribution, the retrieval performance of these schemes suffer...
The signature file method is a popular indexing technique used in information retrieval and databases. It excels in efficient index maintenance and lower space overhead. Different ...
Information ubiquity has created a large crowd of users (most notably scientists), who could employ DBMS technology to process and share their data more effectively. Still, this ...
Declustering and replication are well known techniques used to improve response time of queries in parallel disk environments. As data replication incurs a penalty for updates, da...