In many application contexts, like statistical databases, scientific databases, query optimizers, OLAP, and so on, data are often summarized into synopses of aggregate values. Su...
Francesco Buccafurri, Filippo Furfaro, Domenico Sa...
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw and maintain a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With la...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
Random sampling is a popular technique for providing fast approximate query answers, especially in data warehouse environments. Compared to other types of synopses, random sampling...
Structured documents, especially the XML documents, are made up of a few logical components, such as title, sections, subsections and paragraphs. The components in each structured...
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...