Declaration

I declare that this doctoral thesis was composed by myself and that the work contained therein is my own, except where explicitly stated otherwise in the text. The following articles were published during my period of research. Certain material and concepts from these publications will necessarily be presented within the body of this work.

1.

Zurek, T. (1996). Parallel Temporal Nested-Loop Joins. Technical Report ECS-CSG-20-96, Dept. of Computer Science, Edinburgh University.

2.

Norman, M., Zurek, T., and Thanisch, P. (1996). Much Ado about Shared-Nothing. SIGMOD Record, Vol. 25, No. 3, pages 16-21.

3.

Zurek, T. (1997). Parallel Temporal Joins. In ``Datenbanksysteme in Büro, Technik und Wissenschaft'' (BTW), German Database Conference, Ulm, Germany, pages 269-278. Springer Verlag.

4.

Zurek, T. (1997). Optimal Interval Partitioning for Temporal Databases. In Proc. of the 3rd BIWIT Workshop, Biarritz, France, pages 140-147. IEEE Computer Society Press.

5.

Zurek, T. (1997). Optimisation of Partitioned Temporal Joins. In Proc. of the 15th BNCOD Conference, London, UK, LNCS 1271, pages 101-115. Springer Verlag.

6.

Zurek, T. (1997). Parallel Processing of Temporal Joins. To appear in `Informatica', ISSN 0350-5596.

  (Thomas Zurek)