Declustering and replication are well known techniques used to improve response time of queries in parallel disk environments. As data replication incurs a penalty for updates, da...
Abstract. Running scientific workflows in distributed environments is motivating the definition of provenance gathering approaches that are loosely coupled to the workflow executio...
Anderson Marinho, Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta, C...
There are several auxiliary pre-computed access structures that allow faster answers by reading less base data. Examples are materialized views, join indexes, B-tree and bitmap in...
The design of external index structures for one- and multidimensional extended objects is a long and well studied subject in basic database research. Today, more and more commercia...
To access data sources on the Web, a crucial step is wrapping, which translates query responses, rendered in textual HTML, back into their relational form. Traditionally, this pro...
Shui-Lung Chuang, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, ChengXia...