Paralleldatabasesystemshaveto supportboth inter-transaction as well as intra-transaction parallelism. Inter-uansaction parahelism (multi-user mode) is required to achieve high thr...
In this paper we describe a query paradigm based on ontologies, aggregate table-driven querying and expansion of QBE. It has two novel features: visually specifying aggregate table...
Many papers have examined how to e ciently export a materialized view but to our knowledge none have studied how to e ciently import one. To import a view, i.e., to install a stre...
This paper discusses the structure and components of databases for real-world e-commerce systems. We first present an integrated 8-process value chain needed by the e-commerce sys...
The semantic web represents meta-data as a relation of triples using the RDF data model. We have developed a virtual repository system that enables to process queries to RDF views...