In this paper we describe XXL (eXtensible and fleXible Library), a toolkit for rapid prototyping query processing algorithms. XXL is a flexible, high-level, platform independent J...
Jochen Van den Bercken, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Bernh...
Most database query optimizers use cost models to identify good query execution plans. Inaccuracies in the cost models can cause query optimizers to select poor plans. In this pap...
Efficient query processing in P2P-based Web integration systems poses a variety of challenges resulting from the strict decentralization and limited knowledge. As a special probl...
Many queries processed on the World Wide Web do not return the desired results because they fail to take into account the context of the query and information about user’s situat...
Veda C. Storey, Vijayan Sugumaran, Andrew Burton-J...
In applications such as vision and molecular biology, a common problem is to find the similar objects to a given target (according to some distance measure) in a large database. T...