Abstract. Although maps and partitions are ubiquitous in geographical information systems and spatial databases, there is only little work investigating their foundations. We give ...
The Management of Distributed Applications and Systems (MANDAS) project addresses problems arising in the management of distributed applications. Specifically, we are studying the...
We present a deductive data model for concept-based query expansion. It is based abstraction levels: the conceptual, the expression and the occurrence level. Concepts and their re...
In this paper we propose a framework that can be used for the implementation of reliable multi database system communication protocols. The framework provides transactions on shar...
Meerkat is a distributed memory multicomputer architecture that scales to hundreds of processors. Meerkat uses a two dimensional passive backplane to connect nodes composed of pro...