This paper focuses on the problem of improving distributed query throughput of the RDBMS-based data integration system that has to inherit the query execution model of the underly...
Adaptive query processing in large distributed systems has seen increasing importance due to the rising environmental fluctuations in a growing Internet. We describe Ginga, an ad...
The Grid provides facilities that support the coordinated use of diverse resources, and consequently, provides new opportunities for wide-area query processing. However, Grid resou...
Anastasios Gounaris, Jim Smith, Norman W. Paton, R...
Index is an important element in databases, and the existence of index is unavoidable. When an index has been built on a particular attribute, database operations (e.g. selection,...
A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...