Query optimizers in current database management systems (DBMS) often face problems such as intolerably long optimization time and/or poor optimization results when optimizing compl...
Semantic query optimization (SQO) has been proved to be quite useful in various applications (e.g., data integration, graphical query generators, caching, etc.) and has been extens...
Abstract. Research in Cooperative Query answering is triggered by the observation that users are often not able to correctly formulate queries to databases that return the intended...
Schemas, and more generally metadata specifying structural and semantic constraints, are invaluable in data management. They facilitate conceptual design and enable checking of da...
Peter M. Fischer, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Ren&eacu...
In this paper, we propose a simple and flexible execution model that (i) supports a wide spectrum of alternative optimization and execution strategies and their mixtures, (ii) pro...
Yijian Bai, Hetal Thakkar, Haixun Wang, Carlo Zani...