Commercial database systems expose query hints to address situations in which the optimizer chooses a poor plan for a given query. However, current query hints are not flexible eno...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravishankar Rama...
Query expansion is a functionality of search engines that suggests a set of related queries for a user-issued keyword query. Typical corpus-driven keyword query expansion approach...
We demonstrate ProgXe, a practical approach to support MultiCriteria Decision Support (MCDS) applications that need to report results as they are being generated to enable the use...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
Given a user in a social network, which new friends should we recommend, the dual goal being to achieve user satisfaction and good network connectivity? Similarly, which new produc...