One of the most challenging tasks for the database administrator is to physically design the database to attain optimal performance for a given workload. Physical design is hard b...
Cristina Maier, Debabrata Dash, Ioannis Alagiannis...
The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast number of documents in today's large databases and especially on World Wide Web ca...
Element constructor is one of most expensive operations of the XQuery language as it requires deep copy of the nodes which make up the content of the constructed element. In this ...
: The challenge of the semantic web is the provision of distributed information with well defined meaning, understandable for different parties. Particularly, applications should b...
This paper addresses the problem of representing the connectivity information of geometric objects using as little memory as possible. As opposed to raw compression issues, the fo...