Users of synchronous groupware systems act both as individuals and as members of a group, and designers must try to support both roles. However, the requirements of individuals an...
Computing aggregates over selected categories of multidimensional discrete data (MDD) cubes is the core operation of many on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems. In order to...
An increasing number of science and engineering applications require distributed and parallel computing resources to satisfy user response-time requirements. Distributed science a...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James, Craig J. Patten...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
In a database system, read operations are much more common than write operations, and consequently, database systems have been read optimized. As the size of main memory increases...