Complex database queries require the use of memory-intensive operators like sort and hashjoin. Those operators need memory, also referred to as SQL memory, to process their input ...
\Web users are nowadays confronted with the huge variety of available information sources whose content is not targeted at any specific group or layer. Recommendation systems aim...
Let S = s1, s2, s3, ..., sn be a given vector of n distinct real numbers. The rank of z R with respect to S is defined as the number of elements si S such that si z. We consider...
A set of presentations covering the book, which includes the following topics ER Model and Conceptual Design, The Relational Model and SQL DDL, Relational Algebra, SQL, Database Ap...
We address the issue of regularizing Osher and Rudin's shock filter, used for image deblurring, in order to allow processes that are more robust against noise. Previous soluti...