Due to recent advances in network and computing facilities, use of the Internet is becoming popular and promising in various areas such as scientific collaboration, information di...
In the knowledge economy, a firm's intellectual capital represents the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. Intellectual capital manifests itself, predominantly,...
—In reality, spatial objects (e.g., hotels) not only have spatial locations but also have quality attributes (e.g., price, star). An object p is said to dominate another one p , ...
The sciences, business confederations, and medicine urgently need infrastructure for sharing data and updates among collaborators' constantly changing, heterogeneous databases...
Most modern RDBMS depend on the query processing optimizer’s cost model to choose the best execution plan for a given query. Since the physical IO (PIO) is a costly operation to...