—There is an ever-increasing demand for more complex transactions and higher throughputs in transaction processing systems leading to higher degrees of transaction concurrency an...
-- We estimate the availability, reliability, and mean transaction time (response time) for repairable database configurations, centralized or distributed, in which each service co...
To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) 29]...
Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Kri...
E cient storage and retrieval of multi-attribute datasets have become one of the essential requirements for many data-intensive applications. The Cartesian product le has been kno...
—When a multidatabase system contains textual database systems (i.e., information retrieval systems), queries against the global schema of the multidatabase system may contain a ...
Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Yu, Wei Wang 0010, Naphtali...
—Existing methods for spatial joins require pre-existing spatial indices or other precomputation, but such approaches are inefficient and limited in generality. Operand data sets...
—We present a new access method, called the path dictionary index (PDI) method, for supporting nested queries on object-oriented databases. PDI supports object traversal and asso...
—We investigate the problem of retrieving similar shapes from a large database; in particular, we focus on medical tumor shapes (“Find tumors that are similar to a given patter...
—Due to recent developments in network technologies, broader channel bandwidth is becoming prevalent in worldwide networks. As one of the new technologies making good use of such...