Distributed database applications are a wide use of distributed systems. One of the major advantages of distributed database systems is the potential for achieving high availabili...
A general technique for merging database schemas is developed that has a number of advantages over existing techniques, the most important of which is that schemas are placed in a...
Abstract. Bottom-up evaluation is a central part of query evaluation / program execution in deductive databases. It is used after a source code optimization like magic sets or SLDm...
We investigate the problem of refining SQL queries to satisfy cardinality constraints on the query result. This has applications to the many/few answers problems often faced by da...
This paper describes the evaluation of ERST, an adaptive system which is designed to improve its users' external representation (ER) selection accuracy on a range of database ...