The term Federated Databases refers to the data integration of distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous databases. However, a federation can also include information systems, not only databases. At integrating data, several issues must be addressed. Here, we focus on the problem…

The studies of Relational Data Base Management Systems and Databases constitute nowadays a main tren of investigation in large businesses and universities of the entire world. The creation of a data base engine keeps being a challenge since there are…

Resumen de la tesis del autor para obtener el grado de Magister en Redes de Datos de la Facultad de Informática de la UNLP, dirigida por Luis Armando Marrone.

This paper presents an evolution of a simulation environment where situations in which a DDB should maintain data integrity are modeled and implemented. These situations include failures taking place during transactions, and the focus is mainly on the utilization and…

The Web has became an obiquitous resource for distributed computing making it relevant to investigate new ways of providing efficient access to services available at dedicated sites. Efficiency is an ever-increasing demand which can be only satisfied with the development…

Vertical partitioning, in which attributes of a relation are
assigned to partitions, is aimed at improving database
performance. We extend previous research that is based on
a single relation to multi-relation database environment,
by including referential integrity constraints, access time

Metric-temporal databases are a new database model that combines metric spaces with temporal databases to process similarity queries within a time interval or snapshot. The Historical FHQT is a metric-temporal index which has shown to be competitive answering this type…

Este trabajo se concentra en explorar los efectos potenciales de la educación media y el ambiente familiar sobre los resultados laborales de las jóvenes en Argentina. En particular, interesa la condición laboral, la calidad del empleo y los salarios. El…

Este documento explora la relación entre la distribución del ingreso, las instituciones y los conflictos en América Latina y el Caribe mediante el uso de una nueva base de datos de estadísticas de la distribución del ingreso calculado a partir…

Alsodes pehuenche es una especie endémica del Valle Pehuenche, en los An- des centrales de la Argentina, en el límite con Chile. Su biología es pobremente conocida y, en consecuencia, ha sido incluida en la categoría de Datos Insuficientes por…