Query optimization is a computationally intensive process, especially for complex queries. We present here a tool, called PLASTIC, that can be used by query optimizers to amortize...
Antara Ghosh, Jignashu Parikh, Vibhuti S. Sengar, ...
Unlike traditional database queries, keyword queries do not adhere to predefined syntax and are often dirty with irrelevant words from natural languages. This makes accurate and e...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
Code specialization is a way to obtain significant improvement in the performance of an application. It works by exposing values of different parameters in source code. The availa...
Minhaj Ahmad Khan, Henri-Pierre Charles, Denis Bar...
In this paper we study the constrained consensus problem, i.e. the problem of reaching a common point from the estimates generated by multiple agents that are constrained to lie in...