Abstract. In the context of XML data management systems, the estimation of query cardinality is becoming more and more important: the information provided by a query result estimat...
Recently, the Internet revolutionized many activities from entertainment to marketing and business. Two key underlying Internet technologies, efficient data delivery and hypertext...
There is an increasing need to integrate spatial index structures into commercial database management systems. In geographic information systems (GIS), huge amounts of information ...
The development of data warehouses is based on a threestage process that starts specifying both the static and dynamic properties of on-line analytical processing (OLAP) applicati...
In this paper, a new method for evolving simple electronic circuits is discussed, with the aim of improving the reliability and performance of basic circuit blocks. Next-generatio...