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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 1175-1186


A Temporal Aggregation Method for Update-Intensive Applications


Sung Tak Kang, Yon Dohn Chung+ and Myoung Ho Kim
Department of Computer Science 
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 
Yusung-Gu, Daejon, 305-701, Korea 
+Department of Computer Science and Engineering 
Korea University 
Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, 136-713, Korea


    The temporal aggregation in temporal databases is an extension of the conventional aggregation including the time as a range condition of the aggregation. In this paper, we propose a new tree based structure for the temporal aggregation, called the CTA-tree. In the CTA-tree, we transform the time interval of a temporal data record into a value, called the T-value, using the Corner transformation and column-scan transformation. Then, we index the data records according to their T-values. Through analyses and experiments, we evaluate and compare the performance of the proposed method with the conventional method, and show the efficiency of the proposed method for the update-intensive applications.


Keywords: temporal aggregation, corner transformation, data structures, temporal databases, databases

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