The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
A very important class of queries in GIS applications is the class of K-Nearest Neighbor queries. Most of the current studies on the K-Nearest Neighbor queries utilize spatial ind...
Cyrus Shahabi, Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan, Mehdi Shar...
The prerequisites of success and reasons for failure for enterprise integration projects are still not wellunderstood as evidenced by large failure rates, including cost or schedu...
— Massive data analysis on large clusters presents new opportunities and challenges for query optimization. Data partitioning is crucial to performance in this environment. Howev...
I argue against trying to solve the problem of clustering objects into disk pages. Instead, I propose that objects be fetched in groups that may be specific to an application or ...