In this paper, we describe a scheme for tolerating and recovering from mid-query faults in a distributed shared nothing database. Rather than aborting and restarting queries, our s...
Christopher Yang, Christine Yen, Ceryen Tan, Samue...
Supporting graceful schema evolution represents an unsolved problem for traditional information systems that is further exacerbated in web information systems, such as Wikipedia a...
We describe a new invariant-based data model for image databases under our approach for shape-based retrieval. The data model relies on contours description of the image shape, an...
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
This paper is concerned with the transparent parallelisation of declarative database queries, based on theoretical principles. We have designed an entire database architecture sui...
Mohamad Afshar, J. Bates, Gavin M. Bierman, K. Moo...