The enforcement of semantic integrity constraints in data and knowledge bases constitutea a major performance bottleneck. Integrity constraint simplification methods aim at reduci...
There are many advantages to be gained by storing the lexicon of a full text database in main memory. In this paper we describe how to use a compressed inverted file index to sear...
This paper describes the design and implementation of NAOS, an active rule component in the object-oriented database system 02. The contribution of this work is related to two mai...
In software visualization and algorithm animation it is important that advances in system technologies are accompanied by corresponding advances in animation presentations. In thi...
In several image applications, it is necessary to retrieve specific line segments born a potentially very large set. In this paper, we consider the problem of indexing straight li...