In a recent paper by Hellerstein [15], a tight relationship was conjectured between the number of strata of a Datalog¬ program and the number of “coordination stages” require...
Query optimization is used frequently in relational database management systems. Most existing techniques are based on reordering the relational operators, where the most selective...
Process-centered software engineering environments, such as Arcadia, impose a variety of requirements on database technology that to date have not been well supported by available...
The relational data model is based on sets of tuples, i.e. it does not allow duplicate tuples in a relation. Many database languages and systems do require multi-set place, the hi...
Advancement in mobile computing technologies has prompted strong needs for database systems that can be used in small devices such as sensors, cellular phones, PDAs, car navigator...