A new access method, called M-tree, is proposed to organize and search large data sets from a generic "metric space", i.e. where object proximity is only defined by a di...
Sorting is a memory intensive operation whose performance is greatly affected by the amount of memory available as work space. When the input size is unknown or available memory s...
Selecting views to materialize is one of the most important decisions in designing a data warehouse. In this paper, we present a framework for analyzing the issues in selecting vi...
The yellow pagesservice of GTE SuperPages enables Web users to flexibly search through liitings of 11 million businessesin over 17000 categories. To achievethe flexibility desired...
Steven D. Whitehead, Himanshu Sinha, Michael Murph...
Spatial data mining, i.e., discovery of interesting characteristics and patterns that may implicitly exist in spatial databases, is a challenging task due to the huge amounts of s...
Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...