Histogram techniques have been used in many commercial database management systems to estimate a query result size. Recently, it has been shown that they are very effective to su...
Partitioning within a B-tree, based on an artificial leading key column and combined with online reorganization, can be exploited during external merge sort for accurate deep read...
Background: Web Services and Workflow Management Systems can support creation and deployment of network systems, able to automate data analysis and retrieval processes in biomedic...
Computer vision researchers have recently proposed several local descriptor schemes. Due to lack of database support, however, these descriptors have only been evaluated using sma...
Accurate and efficient integration of geospatial data is an important problem with applications in areas such as emergency response and urban planning. Some of the key challenges ...