: The presentation claims that architectural design plays a crucial role in system development as a first step in a process that turns a requirements specification into a working s...
Statistical summaries in relational databases mainly focus on the distribution of data values and have been found useful for various applications, such as query evaluation and data...
Structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays have been successfully employed in many applications to locate content. However, they have been less effective in handling massive amounts o...
We examine issues in the design of fully dynamic information retrieval systems with support for instantaneous document insertions and deletions. We present one such system and dis...
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...