An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
This paper presents two algorithms for maintaining Btree index consistency in a DBMS which does not use write-ahead logging (WAL). One algorithm is similar to shadow paging, but i...
The mobile agent approach has become popular due to recent developments in the mobile code paradigm and enabling programming technologies. Many existing agentbased systems lack cl...
More and more of our customers have to deal with very large datasets like elevation data and digital roadmaps covering Europe or even the entire world, very large images e.g. from...
The growing availability of mobile devices produces an enormous quantity of personal tracks which calls for advanced analysis methods capable of extracting knowledge out of massiv...