Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are becoming increasingly popular as they enable users to exchange digital information by participating in complex networks. Such systems are inexpensiv...
Online aggregation is a promising solution to achieving fast early responses for interactive ad-hoc queries that compute aggregates on a large amount of data. Essential to the suc...
Information systems often require combining datasets available in different formats, and geographical information systems are no exception. While semantic technologies have been u...
The management of product-related data in a uniform and consistent way is a big challenge for many manufacturing enterprises, especially the large ones like DaimlerChrysler. So-ca...
Partitioning within a B-tree, based on an artificial leading key column and combined with online reorganization, can be exploited during external merge sort for accurate deep read...