Semi-join reducers were introduced in the late seventies as a means to reduce the communication costs of distributed database systems. Subsequent work in the eighties showed, howe...
Konrad Stocker, Donald Kossmann, Reinhard Braumand...
An increasing number of database applications require online access to massive amounts of data. Since large-scale storage systems implemented entirely on magnetic disk can be impr...
Bruce Hillyer, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschat...
Topological relationships between objects in space are of great importance in many disciplines. Recently, topological relationships have been defined for complex spatial objects. ...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...
Many databases have become Web-accessible through form-based search interfaces (i.e., HTML forms) that allow users to specify complex and precise queries to access the underlying ...
Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Yiyao Lu, Clement T. Yu, Zongh...
In order to optimize their revenues and profits, an increasing number of businesses organize their business activities in terms of business processes. Typically, they automate imp...
Marko Vrhovnik, Holger Schwarz, Oliver Suhre, Bern...