The mediator/wrapper approach is used to integrate data from different databases and other data sources by introducing a middleware virtual database that provides high level abstr...
: Support for cooperative distributed applications is an important direction of computer systems research involving developments in operating systems, programming languages and dat...
View materialization is known to be a valuable technique for performance optimization in relational databases, and much work has been done addressing the problem of consistently m...
Object-oriented development is expected to provide many benefits, but observations of industrial practice show that there are many problems to overcome. This paper discusses two i...
MapBase is a laboratory information system that has been supporting a high-throughput genome-mapping operation for the last three years. We chose to build MapBase around a C++-bas...