In the current trend of software engineering, software systems are viewed as clusters of overlapping structures representing various concerns, covering heterogeneous artifacts lik...
In this paper we study the complexity of the model-checking problem for the tree logic introduced as the basis for the query language TQL [Cardelli and Ghelli, 2001]. We define tw...
Data allocation is a key performance factor for parallel database systems (PDBS). This holds especially for data warehousing environments where huge amounts of data and complex an...
This paper describes a novel method for browsing a large video collection. It links various forms of related video fragments together as threads. These threads are based on query r...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...