Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Abstract. Relational algebra has been a crucial foundation for relational database systems, and has played a large role in enabling their success. A corresponding XML algebra for X...
Abstract--With the advance of wireless communication technology, it is quite common for people to view maps or get related services from the handheld devices, such as mobile phones...
A mediator is a domain-speci c tool to support uniform access to multiple heterogeneous information sources and to abstract and combine data from different but related databases t...
Jacques Calmet, Sebastian Jekutsch, Joachim Sch&uu...
Modern database systems increasingly make use of networked storage. This storage can be in the form of SAN's or in the form of shared-nothing nodes in a cluster. One type of a...