In this paper, we motivate four di erent user de ned window query classes and derive a probabilistic model for each of them. For each model, we characterize the e ciency of spatia...
Bernd-Uwe Pagel, Hans-Werner Six, Heinrich Toben, ...
It is often the case that the set of values over which a B-Tree is constructed has a skewed distribution. We present a geometric growth technique to manage postings records in suc...
Wikis are becoming popular knowledge management tools. Analysing knowledge management requirements, we observe that wikis do not fully support structured search and knowledge reuse...
This paper describesFido, a predictive cache [Palmer 19901that prefetchesby employing an associativememoryto recognizeaccesspatterns within a context over time. Repeatedtraining a...
In this paper we focus on the issue of repository transactions. Similar to database objects repository objects can be accessed form multiple clients simultaneously. The organizati...