An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing is the hottest, fastest growing application on the Internet. When designing Gnutella-like applications, the most important consideration is the sca...
Data warehouses are of crucial importance to decision-making in competitive organizations. The fact that they store enormous quantities of data is a challenge in what concerns per...
Spatio-temporal databases have been the focus of considerable research activity over a significant period. However, there are as of yet very few prototypes of complete systems, f...
Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Tony Grif...
One of the assumptions of current software for visualizing architecture is that the underlying geometry is a correct, objective, and complete representation of the objects in ques...