Media recovery protects a database from failures of the stable medium by maintaining an extra copy of the database, called the backup, and a media recovery log. When a failure occ...
During the 1980's there was a lot of activity in the area of Statistical Databases, focusing mostly on socio-economic type applications, such as census data, national product...
Online information services have grown too large for users to navigate without the help of automated tools such as collaborative filtering, which makes recommendations to users ba...
This paper addresses the efficient processing of similarity queries in metric spaces, where data is horizontally distributed across a P2P network. The proposed approach does not r...
We investigate the problem of using materialized views to answer SQL queries. We focus on modern decision-support queries, which involve joins, arithmetic operations and other (po...
Markos Zaharioudakis, Roberta Cochrane, George Lap...