With the substantial change of declarative query languages from plain SQL to the so-called \object SQLs", in particular OQL, there has surprisingly been not much change in the...
Abstract. In this paper we present two improvements to the partitioning process: 1) A new dynamic bu er management strategy is employed to increase the average block size of I/O-tr...
Current database management system technology is unable to provide adequate support for Nomadic Computing. Mobile applications require systems which are sufficiently lightweight an...
Correct transformations and integrations of schemata within the process of federated database design have to encompass existing local integrity constraints. Most of the proposed me...
Evaluating a query can involve manipulation of large volumes of temporary data. When the volume of data becomes too great, activities such as joins and sorting must use disk, and ...
Data mining aims at discovering important and previously unknown patterns from the dataset in the underlying database. Database mining performs mining directly on data stored in r...