The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
Incomplete databases, that is, databases that are missing data, are present in many research domains. It is important to derive techniques to access these databases efficiently. We...
Guadalupe Canahuate, Michael Gibas, Hakan Ferhatos...
—Users querying massive social networks or RDF databases are often not 100% certain about what they are looking for due to the complexity of the query or heterogeneity of the dat...
Abstract-- We introduce join scheduling algorithms that employ a balanced network utilization metric to optimize the use of all network paths in a global-scale database federation....
Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Andreas Terzis, Amo...
We present the architecture and design details of a logic database system that extends functionality in a number of ways. The system supports indefinite (non-Horn) facts in extens...