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...
Repositories of multimedia objects having multiple types of attributes e.g., image, text are becoming increasingly common. A selection on these attributes will typically produce n...
The research communityhas considered hash-based parallel joinalgorithmsthe algorithmsof choice for almosta decade. However, almostnone ofthe commercialparallel database systems us...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Joseph Burge...
: Weexemplify in this paper, howa discovery system is applied to the analysis of simulation experimentsin practical political planning, andshowwhatkind of newknowledgecan be discov...
AMOS (Active Mediators Object System) is an architecture to model, locate, search, combine, update, and monitor data in information systems with many work stations connected using...