: Due to the high complexity of objects and queries and also due to extremely large data volumes, geographic database systems impose stringent requirements on their storage and acc...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Holger Horn, Hans-Peter Kriegel,...
We describe an algorithm for estimating the number of page fetches for a partial or complete scan of a B-tree index. The algorithm obtains estimates for the number of page fetches ...
A partial evaluator is an automatic program transformation tool. Given as input a general program and part of its input, it can produce a specialized version. If the partial evalu...
Distributed clientisewer models are becoming increasingly prevalent in multimedia systems and advanced user interface design. A multimedia application, for example, may play and r...
The designation “fault tolerant software” has been used for techniques ranging from roll-back and retry to N-version programming, from data mirroring to functional redundancy....