If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
In data stream applications, data arrive continuously and can only be scanned once as the query processor has very limited memory (relative to the size of the stream) to work with...
Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, Rui Zhan...
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...
Despite of the fact that large line segment datasets are appearing more and more frequently in numerous applications involving spatial data, such as GIS 8, 9] multimedia 6] and ev...
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...