: In the recent years, XML has become the universal interchange format. Many investigations have been made on storing, querying and integrating XML with existing applications. Many...
Traditional indexes aim at optimizing the node accesses during query processing, which, however, does not necessarily minimize the total cost due to the possibly large number of r...
We consider adaptive two-channel multiple-description coding. We provide an analytical method for designing a resolutionconstrained symmetrical multiple-description coder that use...
Janusz Klejsa, Marcin Kuropatwinski, W. Bastiaan K...
There are several auxiliary pre-computed access structures that allow faster answers by reading less base data. Examples are materialized views, join indexes, B-tree and bitmap in...