Abstract. Query optimization is an important functionality of modern database systems and often based on estimating the selectivity of queries before actually executing them. Well-...
Estimating the selectivity of multidimensional range queries over real valued attributes has significant applications in data exploration and database query optimization. In this p...
Dimitrios Gunopulos, George Kollios, Vassilis J. T...
Estimating the result size of a join is an important query optimization problem as it determines the choice of a good query evaluation strategy. Yet, there are few efficient techni...
In a variety of applications ranging from optimizing queries on alphanumeric attributes to providing approximate counts of documents containing several query terms, there is an in...
Zhiyuan Chen, Flip Korn, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukris...
Searchers can have problems devising queries that accurately express their, often dynamic, information needs. In this paper we describe an adaptive approach that uses unobtrusive ...