Abstract. Peer-to-Peer systems have proven to be an effective way of sharing data. Modern protocols are able to efficiently route a message to a given peer. However, determining th...
Abstract. A classical problem in query optimization is to find the optimal ordering of a set of possibly correlated selections. We provide an ion of this problem as a generalizati...
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...
Topological predicates, as derived from the 9-intersection model, have been widely recognized in GIS, spatial database systems, and many other geo-related disciplines. They are ba...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...
Abstract. A global Data warehouse (DW) integrates data from multiple distributed heterogeneous databases and other information sources. DW can be abstractly seen as a set of materi...