Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...
Recently there is much interest in moving objects databases, and data models and query languages have been proposed offering data types such as moving point and moving region toge...
Alignment of organisational strategy with Information Systems Strategy (ISS) has become critical as adoption of Information Systems (IS) over the last 50 years has escalated. IS c...
XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for representing data in the World Wide Web. Sophisticated query engines that allow users to effectively tap the data stored in XML d...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kristin Tufte, Chun Zhan...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...