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 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...
Databaseindexing is a well studied problem. However, the advent of Hypertext databasesopensnew questionsin indexing. Searches are often demarcated by pointers between text items. ...
This paper presents an approach to maintaining consistency of object versions in multiversion database systems. In this approach a multiversion database is considered to be a set ...
In this paper we describe a new language for statistical data modelling, which offers a general framework for the representation of elementary and summarydata.Thereare threemain c...
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 present an efficient algorithm for managing replicated data. We impose a logical tree structure on the set of copies of an object. In a failurefree environment t...