Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Although scientific data analysis increasingly requires accessandmanipulation of large quantitiesof data,current databasetechnology fails to meet the needsof scientific processing...
Applications in finance and telecommunications (intelligent network, network management, mobile computing) cause renewed interest in distributed and replicated data management. Si...
Critical sections in database storage engines impact performance and scalability more as the number of hardware contexts per chip continues to grow exponentially. With enough thre...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Anastasia Ailamak...