Non-monotonic knowledge evolutions and exceptions constitute a complex theoritical and practical problem. The state of the art shows a rich and surprising diversity of approaches....
- In this paper, we address the problem of buffer management in a DBMS when the workload consists of transactions of different priority levels. We present Priority-Hints. a new buf...
This paper studies a number of hash-based join algorithms for general purpose multiprocessor computers with shared memory where the amount of memory allocated to the join operatio...
ABSTRACT - In this paperwe describe the design, implementation, and performance of an incremental join facility that has been added as an extension to the Starburst extensible DBMS...
Michael J. Carey, Eugene J. Shekita, George Lapis,...
In this paper, we describe a new indexing technique, the time indez, for improving the performance of certain classes of temporal queries. The time index can be used to retrieve v...