In order to enable extensibility, modern query optimizers typically leverage a transformation rule based framework. Testing individual rule correctness as well as correctness of r...
Hicham G. Elmongui, Vivek R. Narasayya, Ravishanka...
A top-k query combines different rankings of the same set of objects and returns the k objects with the highest combined score according to an aggregate function. We bring to ligh...
Nikos Mamoulis, Kit Hung Cheng, Man Lung Yiu, Davi...
Classical retrieval models support content-oriented searching for documents using a set of words as data model. However, in hypertext and database applications we want to consider...
When a query is evaluated under bag semantics, each answer is returned as many times as it has derivations. Bag semantics has long been recognized as important, especially when ag...