Spatio-temporal databases deal with geometries changing over time. In general, geometries do not only change discretely but continuously; hence we are dealing with moving objects....
Background: Since Swanson proposed the Undiscovered Public Knowledge (UPK) model, there have been many approaches to uncover UPK by mining the biomedical literature. These earlier...
Based on loosely coupled services in an XML engine, we describe how to realize fine-grained lock protocols, which can guarantee transaction isolation for applications using differ...
The paper introduces a notion of support for realvalued functions. It is shown how to approximate supports of a large class of functions based on supports of so called polynomial ...
The join is the most important, but also the most time consuming operation in relational database systems. We implemented the parallel Hybrid Hash Join algorithm on a PC-cluster a...