A "sparse" data set typically has hundreds or even thousands of attributes, but most objects have non-null values for only a small number of these attributes. A popular ...
Eric Chu, Jennifer L. Beckmann, Jeffrey F. Naughto...
The deferred update technique is a widely used approach for building replicated database systems. Its fame stems from the fact that read-only transactions can execute locally to a...
An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...
During the last years, significant attention has been paid to the problem of building wrappers for extracting data from semistructured web sources. Nevertheless, since web sources...
The existence of a language expressing precisely the PTIME queries on arbitrary structures remains the central open problem in the theory of database query languages. As it turns o...