: Skyline Queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query capabilities. Following the concept of Pareto optimality all `best' database objects a...
We present the SQL Performance Analyzer, a novel approach in Oracle Database 11g to testing database changes, such as upgrades, parameter changes, schema changes, and gathering op...
While traditional database systems optimize for performance on one-shot queries, emerging large-scale monitoring applications require continuous tracking of complex aggregates and...
Graham Cormode, Minos N. Garofalakis, S. Muthukris...
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Resource virtualization is currently being employed at all levels of the IT infrastructure to improve provisioning and manageability, with the goal of reducing total cost of owner...