Databases are increasingly being used to store multi-media objects such as maps, images, audio and video. Storage and retrieval of these objects is accomplished using multi-dimens...
Kothuri Venkata Ravi Kanth, Divyakant Agrawal, Amb...
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
Two new spatial join operations, distance join and distance semijoin, are introduced where the join output is ordered by the distance betweenthe spatialattribute values ofthe join...
The functionality of extensible database servers can be augmented by user-de ned functions UDFs. However, the server's security and stability are concerns whenever new code...
Michael W. Godfrey, Tobias Mayr, Praveen Seshadri,...
Clustering, in data mining, is useful for discovering groups and identifying interesting distributions in the underlying data. Traditional clustering algorithms either favor clust...
In large data recording and warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to queries, whenever possible. Before DBMSs providing highly-ac...
Caching has been proposed (and implemented) by OLAP systems in order to reduce response times for multidimensional queries. Previous work on such caching has considered table leve...
Prasad Deshpande, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Amit Shukl...