The accurate formulation of boolean expressions is a notorious problem in programming languages and database query tools. This paper studies the ways that untrained users naturall...
In a distributed system, replication of components, such as objects, is a well known way of achieving availability. For increased availability, crashed and disconnected components...
Abstract. In this paper we present a new approach for studying aggregations in the context of database query languages. Starting from a broad de nition of aggregate function, we ad...
We present a pipelining, dynamically usercontrollable reorder operator, for use in dataintensive applications. Allowing the user to reorder the data delivery on the fly increases...
Vijayshankar Raman, Bhaskaran Raman, Joseph M. Hel...
This paper outlines a generic, core temporal object model that provides support for the modeling of temporal object roles. This model draws from notions introduced in some of our ...