We present a framework which allows the user to access and manipulate data uniformly, regardless of whether it resides in a database or in the file system (or in both). A key issu...
Counting in general, and estimating the cardinality of (multi-) sets in particular, is highly desirable for a large variety of applications, representing a foundational block for ...
Nikos Ntarmos, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Weikum
Applications like multimedia retrieval require efficient support for similarity search on large data collections. Yet, nearest neighbor search is a difficult problem in high dimen...
Arjen P. de Vries, Nikos Mamoulis, Niels Nes, Mart...
Materialized views have been found to be very effective at speeding up queries, and are increasingly being supported by commercial databases and data warehouse systems. However, w...
Hoshi Mistry, Prasan Roy, S. Sudarshan, Krithi Ram...
Correctly generating a structured query (e.g., an XQuery or a SQL query) requires the user to have a full understanding of the database schema, which can be a daunting task. Alter...