- 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...
In several image applications, it is necessary to retrieve specific line segments born a potentially very large set. In this paper, we consider the problem of indexing straight li...
Relations in partitioned normal form are an important subclass of nested relations. This paper is concerned with the problem of restructuring relations in partitioned normal form ...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
Remotebackup copies of databasesare often maintained to ensureavailability of dataevenin thepresenceof extensive failures, for which local replication mechanismsmay be inadequate....
Hector Garcia-Molina, Christos A. Polyzois, Robert...