For an enterprise to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by electronic commerce it must be able to make decisions about business transactions in near-realtime. In the com...
Analysis of range queries on spatial (multidimensional) data is both important and challenging. Most previous analysis attempts have made certain simplifying assumptions about the...
We present the design and analysis of a customized access method for the content-based image retrieval system, Blobworld. Using the amdb access method analysis tool, we analyzed t...
We consider an architecture of mediators and wrappers for Internet accessible WebSources of limited query capability. Each call to a source is a WebSource Implementation (WSI) and...
Vladimir Zadorozhny, Laura Bright, Louiqa Raschid,...
This paper presents a general model for estimating access times of serpentine tape drives. The model is used to schedule I/O requests in order to minimize the total access time. W...