Abstract. In this paper, we present an image retrieval system that employs both the color and spatial information of images to facilitate the retrieval process. The basic unit used...
The increasing power of modern computers steadily opens up new application domains for advanced data processing such as engineering and knowledge-based applications. To meet their...
The elapsed time for external mergesort is normally dominated by I/O time. This paper is focused on reducing I/O time during the merge phase. Three new buffering and readahead str...
With today's demands for continuous availability of mission-critical databases, on-line reorganization is a necessity. In this paper we present a new on-Iine reorganization a...
It is today widely acceptedthat "Business Rules Independence" is required for information systemsto better and more rapidly adjust to changesin thebusinessenvironment,Th...
This paper describes a massively parallel object relational (O/R) database used in an advanced development program to create a comprehensive medical information system called the ...