In semistructured databases there is no schema fixed in advance. To provide the benefits of a schema in such environments, we introduce DataGuides: concise and accurate structural...
Object-oriented databases are a recent and important development and many studies of them have been performed. These consider aspects such as data modeling, query languages, perfo...
There are many underlying hardware architectures for execution of parallel applications. One of these is the Network of Workstations (NOW) which is an interesting solution for use...
Geometry processing applications frequently rely on octree structures, since they provide simple and efficient hierarchies for discrete data. However, octrees do not guarantee dire...
: Active Database Systems (ADBSs) provides a good infrastructure to define and execute active rules. Nevertheless, this infrastructure offered by ADBSs does not completely satisfy ...
Sidney Viana, Jorge Rady de Almeida Jr., Judith Pa...