Information-rich environments are the open environments that characterize most of the modern applications of computing technology. The applications include ubiquitous information a...
The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...
Approximate predicates can be used to reduce the number of comparisons made by expensive, complex predicates. For example, to check if a point is within a region (expensive predic...
One of the most well-studied problems in data mining is mining for association rules in market basket data. Association rules, whose significance is measured via support and confi...
This paper presents general algorithms for concurrency control in tree-based access methods as well as a recovery protocol and a mechanism for ensuring repeatable read. The algori...