Application of decision diagrams for information storage and retrieval

Technology is improving at an amazing pace and one reason for this advancement is the unprecedented growth in the field of information technology and also in digital integrated circuit technology over the past few decades. Researchers have been successful in designing complex databases but there is still lot of activity in effectively making use of this stored information. There have been significant advancements in the field of logic optimization and also in information storage and retrieval but there has been very little transfer of these methods. The purpose of this study is to investigate the application of powerful Computer Aided Design (CAD) techniques for two key areas of research in database systems known as "query optimization" and "datamining". Encouraging results are obtained indicating that using hardware techniques for information processing can be used as a new approach for solving these problems.