Repositories of multimedia objects having multiple types of attributes e.g., image, text are becoming increasingly common. A selection on these attributes will typically produce n...
It is clearly crucial for the success of object-oriented databases to find effiĆ cient implementations that improve on the performance of relational sysĆ tems, rather than being...
The advance of Internet technology fosters the order fulfillment process in a supply chain across heterogeneous information systems. In order to monitor states between partners in...
The ability to flexibly compose confidence computation with the operations of relational algebra is an important feature of probabilistic database query languages. Computing confi...
The use of inaccurate or outdated database statistics by the query optimizer in a relational DBMS often results in a poor choice of query execution plans and hence unacceptably lo...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Peter J. Haas, Sam Lightstone, G...