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WISE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
On Tree Pattern Query Rewriting Using Views
We study and present our findings on two closely related problems on xpath rewriting using views when both the view and the query are tree patterns involving /,// and []. First, g...
Junhu Wang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chengfei Liu
COMPGEOM
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Computing Exact Geometric Predicates Using Modular Arithmetic with Single Precision
Abstract: We propose an e cient method that determines the sign of a multivariate polynomial expression with integer coe cients. This is a central operation on which the robustness...
Hervé Brönnimann, Ioannis Z. Emiris, V...
PODS
2000
ACM
137views Database» more  PODS 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Query Containment for Data Integration Systems
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
Todd D. Millstein, Alon Y. Levy, Marc Friedman
ER
2003
Springer
148views Database» more  ER 2003»
14 years 17 days ago
Improving Query Performance Using Materialized XML Views: A Learning-Based Approach
We consider the problem of improving the efficiency of query processing on an XML interface of a relational database, for predefined query workloads. The main contribution of this ...
Ashish Shah, Rada Chirkova
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
108views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
14 years 7 months ago
PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multi-parametric Ranked Queries
Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...