Indexes play a vital role in decision support systems by reducing the cost of answering complex queries. A popular methodology for choosing indexes that is adopted by database adm...
Adaptive indexing is characterized by the partial creation and refinement of the index as side effects of query execution. Dynamic or shifting workloads may benefit from prelimi...
Stratos Idreos, Stefan Manegold, Harumi A. Kuno, G...
B-tree and index into two layers of abstraction. In addition, this paper provides algorithms for (i) concurrency control and recovery including locking of individual keys and of co...
Indexes are the key technology underpinning efficient text search. A range of algorithms have been developed for fast query evaluation and for index creation, but update algorithm...
This paper reports work on automated meta-data creation for multimedia content. The approach results in the generation of a conceptual index of the content which may then be searc...
Jan Kuper, Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham, Thi...