A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
We have developed a system to process database queries over composed data providing web services. The queries are transformed into execution plans containing an operator that invok...
Partial evaluation has recently proven an effective technique for evaluating Boolean XPath queries over a fragmented tree that is distributed over a number of sites. What left ope...
The vision of the Semantic Web is to make Web content machine-readable. To describe data, the Resource Description Framework has been extended with a schema-level and description ...
In this paper we address the problem of minimizing the response time of a multi-way join query using pipelined (inter-operator) parallelism, in a parallel or a distributed environ...