Sensors are often employed to monitor continuously changing entities like locations of moving objects and temperature. The sensor readings are reported to a database system, and a...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...
Making multi-terabyte scientific databases publicly accessible over the Internet is increasingly important in disciplines such as Biology and Astronomy. However, contention at a c...
Xiaodan Wang, Tanu Malik, Randal C. Burns, Stratos...
Constraint-based database caching aims at correctly answering SQL query predicates from a local cache database by exploiting constraints that have previously been used in selectin...
Background: High-throughput molecular biology provides new data at an incredible rate, so that the increase in the size of biological databanks is enormous and very rapid. This sc...
Semistructured data occur in situations where information lacks a homogeneous structure and is incomplete. Yet, up to now the incompleteness of information has not been re ected b...