Coming along with the development of modern database applications, various index
structures have been created to support the efficient storage and retrieval of data. These …

Automatic service integration or composition is one important approach to achieve
interoperability among processes, making them collaborate in order to achieve given user …

This is a final report on the OPTIMASS project which was in part a collaborative research
effort between researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore …

Emerging software systems in disciplines like eScience process vast amounts of diverse
data at amazing speed and in a computationally-intensive way. To better serve these …

Summary This deliverable and its annexed documents and archives detail the principles,
assumptions, organization of a prototype for a tool achieving automated goal directed …

The Data Engineering Bulletin The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering
is published quarterly and is distributed to all TC members. Its scope includes the design …

In previous chapters we have examined various access methods, which have been tailored
to be used in a great variety of environment and applications. However, the advancements …

Advances in high-performance computing, communication, and storage technologies, as
well as emerging large-scale multimedia applications, have made the design and …

We present two new techniques for improving the performance of multidimensional indexes.
For static data sets, we nd that bulk loading techniques are e ective at clustering data items …