In this paper we present a model of functional access to data that, we argue, is suitable for modeling a class of data repositories characterized by functional access, such as web ...
An effective query optimizer finds a query plan that exploits the characteristics of the source data. In data integration, little is known in advance about sources' propertie...
Repositories of multimedia objects having multiple types of attributes e.g., image, text are becoming increasingly common. A selection on these attributes will typically produce n...
Businesses today need to interrelate data stored in diverse systems with differing capabilities, ideally via a single high-level query interface. We present the design of a query ...
Laura M. Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward L. Wimmers,...
In this paper we introduce the notion of constrained nearest neighbor queries (CNN) and propose a series of methods to answer them. This class of queries can be thought of as neare...