A major challenge facing biodiversity informatics is integrating data stored in widely distributed databases. Initial efforts have relied on taxonomic names as the shared identifi...
: A new issue that arises in modern applications involves the efficient manipulation of (static or moving) spatial objects, and the relationships among them. As a result, modern da...
Yannis Theodoridis, Timos K. Sellis, Apostolos Pap...
A join index hierarchy method is proposed to handle the "goto's on disk" problem in objectoriented query processing. The method constructs a hierarchy of join indic...
The increasing use of temporal and spatial data in presentday relational systems necessitates an efficient support of joins on interval-valued attributes. Standard join algorithms...
Abstract. Classical buffer replacement policies, e.g., LRU, are suboptimal for database systems having flash disks for persistence, because they are not aware of the distinguished ...