A common optimization technique in the OLAP application domain is the use of summary aggregate data. For an appropriate support of analysis hot spots, we propose a query based agg...
Abstract: The work described in this article arises from two needs. First, there is still a need for providing more sophisticated database systems than just relational ones. Second...
Markus Kirchberg, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Alexei Tret...
In digital libraries image retrieval queries can be based on the similarity of objects, using several feature attributes like shape, texture, color or text. Such multi-feature que...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
Continuous top-k queries, which report a certain number (k) of top preferred objects from data streams, are important for a broad class of real-time applications, ranging from fi...
Di Yang, Avani Shastri, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mat...