Compression in column-oriented databases has been proven to offer both performance enhancements and reductions in storage consumption. This is especially true for read access as c...
Measuring the similarity between implicit semantic relations is an important task in information retrieval and natural language processing. For example, consider the situation whe...
Database processes must be cache-efficient to effectively utilize modern hardware. In this paper, we analyze the importance of temporal locality and the resultant cache behavior ...
Geographical information retrieval (GIR) can benefit from context information to adapt the results to a user’s current situation and personal preferences. In this respect, seman...
Various attacks (e.g., SQL injections) may corrupt data items in the database systems, which decreases the integrity level of the database. Intrusion detections systems are becomi...