In existing systems, user transactions get blocked during materialized view creation and non-trivial database schema transformations. Blocking user transactions is not an option in...
Relational database systems are increasingly used to manage XML documents, especially for data-centric XML. In this paper we present a new approach to efficiently manage document-c...
Due to the rapid advancement of electronic commerce and web technologies in recent years, the concepts and applications of decision support systems have been significantly extende...
Lumberjack is a log-structured persistent object store intended for use with conventional operating systems such as Unix. The design draws together facets of previous work, in par...
Web services technologies are emerging as a new approach for supporting e-Science and e-Engineering by providing access to heterogeneous computation resources and integration of d...