Data fragmentation offers various attractive alternatives to organizing and managing data, and presents interesting characteristics that may be exploited for efficient processing...
Tree based indexing structures like -trees, ·-trees, Bitmap indexes and Ê-trees have become essential for getting good performance when accessing vast datasets. However, most dat...
Yannis Kotidis, Yannis Sismanis, Nick Roussopoulos
Abstract. Database applications are frequently faced with the necessity of representing time varying information and, particularly in the management of information systems, a few k...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
New technologies used in biology are generating huge quantities of data; up to two petabytes of overall data are to be expected by the end of the decade. Modern biology also has t...