We show how structured data stored in files can benefit from standard database technology and in particular be queried and updated using database languages. We introduce the notio...
During the last decade, all commercial database systems have included features for parallel processing into their products. This development has been driven by the fact that datab...
This paper presents the results of the NEOLOGOS project: a children database and an optimized adult database for the French language. A new approach was adopted for the collection...
Digitizing ancient books, especially those related to the humanities, is practiced in many countries. The number of full-text databases in the humanities is increasing. Studies hav...
I completed my dissertation in the area of Operations Research in 2005. Subsequently, I was employed with the corporate research arm of Infosys Technologies Ltd, called SETlabs fro...
Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...
Data confidentiality is a major concern in database systems. Encryption is a useful tool for protecting the confidentiality of sensitive data. However, when data is encrypted, perf...
When two or more databases are combined into a global one, integrity may be violated even when each database is consistent with its own local integrity constraints. Efficient metho...
Mobile platforms combined with large databases promise new opportunities for mobile applications. However, mobile computing devices may experience frequent communication loss while...
Experimental assessment of the performance of classification algorithms is an important aspect of their development and application on real-world problems. To facilitate this analy...