Graphical Direct Manipulation (GrDM) query languagesare characterized and positioned with respect to traditional textual query languages. After a brief survey of the current state...
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such that the amoun...
Background: Since Swanson proposed the Undiscovered Public Knowledge (UPK) model, there have been many approaches to uncover UPK by mining the biomedical literature. These earlier...
The paper presents a novel method for compressing large database workloads for purpose of autonomic, continuous index selection. The compressed workload contains a small subset of ...
The wide spread use of cellular phones, handheld devices, and GPS-like technology enables location-aware environments where virtually all objects are aware of their locations. Loca...