In this paper we present a prototype system for the management of earth science data which is novel in that it takes a DBMS centric view of the the task. Our prototype -- called &...
In earlier work, we developed a fast method for 2-D shape retrieval based on point correspondences of silhouette contours. That method did not assume that the database shapes had ...
It has long been recognized that multi-stream operators, such as union and join, often have to wait idly in a temporarily blocked state, as a result of skews between the timestamp...
Yijian Bai, Hetal Thakkar, Haixun Wang, Carlo Zani...
Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...
As the size of scientific and commercial datasets grows, it becomes imperative that an expressive metadata framework to be developed to facilitate access to the semantics of the d...