Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
We consider unranked trees, that have become an active subject of study recently due to XML applications, and characterize commonly used fragments of firstorder (FO) and monadic ...
Abstract. Spatial conjunction is a powerful construct for reasoning about dynamically allocated data structures, as well as concurrent, distributed and mobile computation. While re...
We present the TreeScape system that, unlike any other system known to the authors, enables the reuse of pre-computed aggregate query results for irregular dimension hierarchies, ...
Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, Curtis ...
: Cost-based optimizers in relational databases make use of data statistics to estimate intermediate result cardinalities. Those cardinalities are needed to estimate access plan co...