A major performance bottleneck for database systems is the memory hierarchy. The performance of the memory hierarchy is directly related to how the content of disk pages maps to t...
This paper presents an approach to answering queries over an ontology modelled using a description logic. The ontology acts as a global schema, providing a declarative description...
Martin Peim, Enrico Franconi, Norman W. Paton, Car...
We report on a query compilation technique that enables the construction of alternative efficient query providers for Microsoft’s Language Integrated Query (LINQ) framework. LIN...
In this paper, we carefully explore the assumptions behind using information capacity equivalence as a measure of correctness for judging transformed schemas in schema integration...
In this paper we study the node distribution of an Rtree storing region data, like for instance islands, lakes or human-inhabited areas. We will show that real region datasets are...