— We demonstrate ROX, a run-time optimizer of XQueries, that focuses on finding the best execution order of XPath steps and relational joins in an XQuery. The problem of join or...
Riham Abdel Kader, Peter A. Boncz, Stefan Manegold...
Scheduling data processing workflows (dataflows) on the cloud is a very complex and challenging task. It is essentially an optimization problem, very similar to query optimizati...
Herald Kllapi, Eva Sitaridi, Manolis M. Tsangaris,...
This paper discusses variable selection for medical decision making; in particular decisions regarding when to provide treatment and which treatment to provide. Current variable se...
Magic sets rewriting is a well-known optimization heuristic for complex decision-support queries. There can be many variants of this rewriting even for a single query, which diffe...
Praveen Seshadri, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Hamid Pir...
The optimization of spacecraft trajectories can be formulated as a global optimization task. The complexity of the problem depends greatly on the problem formulation, on the spacec...