The constructionof high-performance databasesystems that combine the best aspects of the relational and object-oriented approaches requires the design of client-server architectur...
The goal of a mediator system is to provide users a uniform interface to the multitude of information sources. To translate user queries, given in a mediated schema, to queries on...
A topic that is currently inspiring a lot of research is parallel (distributed) computation of transitive closure queries. In [lo] the disconnection set approach has been introduc...
Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Peter M. G. Apers, Gideon L...
The performance of data-parallel algorithms for spatial operations using data-parallel variants of the bucket PMR quadtree, R-tree, and R+-tree spatial data structures is compared...
Disk arrays (RAID) have been proposed as a possible approach to solving the emerging I/O bottleneck problem. The performance of a RAID system when all disks are operational and th...