This can be a costly operation. When the data is arranged according to its three-dimensional coordinates, calculating the contour surfaces requires examining each data cell. Avoidi...
We investigate the problem of incremental maintenance of an SQL view in the face of database updates, and show that it is possible to reduce the total time cost of view maintenanc...
ed Abstract Factory is yet another. When patterns cooperate, the cooperation itself can give rise to problems, contexts, trade-offs, and consequences. For instance, should a Visito...
This paper presents a region splitting strategy for physical database design of multidimensional le organizations. Physical database design is the process of determining the optim...
We consider the problem of removing a given disk from a collection of unit disks in the plane. At each step, we allow a disk to be removed by a collision-free translation to infin...