Constraint-based languages can express in a concise way the complex logic of a new generation of interactive services for applications such as banking or stock trading, that must ...
While the B-tree (or the B+ -tree) is the most popular index structure in disk-based relational database systems, the Ttree has been widely accepted as a promising index structure...
We consider a system in which many users run queries to examine subsets of a large object set. The object set is partitioned into files on tape. A single subset of objects will b...
The information overload on the Web has created a great need for efficient filtering mechanisms. Many sites (e.g., CNN and Quicken) address this problem by allowing a user to crea...
The database query optimizer requires the estimation of the query selectivity to find the most efficient access plan. For queries referencing multiple attributes from the same rel...