Efficient evaluation strategies for declarative updates have rarely been investigated. Due to possible dependencies between the resulting database state and the order in which re...
Today, two classes of indexing methods enjoying wide applicability are the Inverted Index and the Superimposed Coding based Signature File (SC-SF). The former is most efficient i...
Dimitrios Dervos, P. Linardis, Yannis Manolopoulos
Recent work on client-server data-shipping OODBs has demonstratedthe usefulnessof localdatacachingat clientsites. In addition to data caching, index caching can provide substantia...
Simulating distributed database systems is inherently difficult, as there are many factors that may influence the results. This includesarchitectural options as well as workload...
For the last many years, workflow management (WFM) has been the focus of intense activity in terms of products, standards and research work worldwide. WFM integrates concepts from ...