Peer-to-peer database systems (P2PDBs) aim at providing database services with node autonomy, high availability and loose coupling between participating nodes by building the DBMS...
This paper shows a scheme for incremental evaluation of XPath queries. Here, we focus on a monotone fragment of XPath, i.e., when a data is deleted from (or inserted to) the datab...
Nearest Neighbor Search on Multimedia Indexing Structures Multimedia databases get larger and larger in our days, and this trend is expected to continue in the future. There are v...
XML is increasingly becoming the format of choice for information exchange on the Internet. As this trend grows, one can expect that documents (or collections thereof) may get qui...
Premkumar T. Devanbu, Michael Gertz, April Kwong, ...
We consider a distributed information system that allows autonomous consumers to query autonomous providers. We focus on the problem of query allocation from a new point of view, ...