For very large databases such as those used by banks and airlines, cost considerations may forbid shutting down the service for a long period of time and reorganizing off-line. Si...
We propose an extended relational database model which can model both uncertainty and imprecision in data. This model is basedon Dempster-Shafertheory which has become popular in ...
Service order provisioning is an important telecommunication application that automates the process of providing telephone services in response to the customer requests. It is an ...
Mansoor Ansari, Linda Ness, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Am...
Most extensibledatabasesystemssupportaddition of new indexes or new data types. However, the referencepatterns exhibited by these new indexes may not be efficiently supportedby ex...
The retrieval process in image database systems is inherently different from the retrieval processin traditional (recordoriented)databasesystems.While thelatter canbe consideredan...