In this paper we investigate techniques that allow for on-line updates to columnar databases, leaving intact their high read-only performance. Rather than keeping differential str...
Abstract. We present in this paper a new model for representing probabilistic information in a semi-structured (XML) database, based on the use of probabilistic event variables. Th...
Abstract. In this paper, we focus on B2B scenarios where XML views are extracted from relational databases and sent over the Web to another application that edits them and sends th...
: Recent advances in gene sequencing have provided complete sequence information for a number of genomes and as a result the amount of data in the sequence databases is growing at ...
This paper deals with one aspect of the index quality of search engines: index freshness. The purpose is to analyse the update strategies of the major Web search engines Google, Y...