Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...
We study the problem of maintaining recursively-de ned views, such as the transitive closure of a relation, in traditional relational languages that do not have recursion mechanis...
The increased use of video data sets for multimedia-based applications has created a demand for strong video database support, including efficient methods for handling the content...
Walid G. Aref, Moustafa A. Hammad, Ann Christine C...
Although speech and language processing techniques achieved a relative maturity during the last decade, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task because of the ...
Current relational databases require that a database schema exist prior to data entry and require manual optimization for best performance. We describe the query optimization tech...
Scott M. Meyer, Jutta Degener, John Giannandrea, B...