Geographic Information Systems (GIS) showed their insufficiencies in front of complex requests for decision-makers. Resulting of the association of the databases and the decision-m...
Known parallel DBMS offer at present only static partitioning schemes. Adding a storage node is then a cumbersome operation that typically requires the manual data redistribution....
Yakham Ndiaye, Aly Wane Diene, Witold Litwin, Tore...
When the World-Wide Web was first created, the content on most Web sites was simply a collection of static files. Today, many Web sites dynamically generate responses “on the ...
Lance Titchkosky, Martin F. Arlitt, Carey L. Willi...
Multimedia interfaces increase the need for large image databases, capable of storing and reading streams of data with strict synchronicity and isochronicity requirements. In orde...
Benoit A. Gennart, Vincent Messerli, Roger D. Hers...
Given a set of keywords, we find a maximum Web query (containing the most keywords possible) that respects userdefined bounds on the number of returned hits. We assume a real-world...