Materialized views offer opportunities for significant performance gain in query evaluation by providing fast access to pre-computed data. The question of when and how to use a ma...
During the past decade there have been significant advances in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and, in particular, Information Extraction (IE) [2] which have fueled...
Kiyoshi Sudo, Amit Bagga, Lawrence O'Gorman, Jon L...
Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a ...
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such that the amoun...
: Nowadays, the database characteristics, such as the huge volume of data, the complexity of the queries, and even the data availability, can demand minutes or hours to process a q...
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Rodrigo Salvador Monte...