Optimization of join queries based on average selectivities is suboptimal in highly correlated databases. In such databases, relations are naturally divided into partitions, each ...
Kostas Tzoumas, Amol Deshpande, Christian S. Jense...
Elevation maps are a widely used spatial data representation in geographical information systems (GIS). Paths on elevation maps can be characterized by profiles, which describe re...
Historical information can be effectively preserved using XML and searched through powerful historical queries written in XQuery. Indeed, by storing the successive versions of a d...
Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Xin Zhou, Hyun J. Moo...
Abstract. In many cases, users may want to consider incomplete answers to their queries. Often, however, there is an overwhelming number of such answers, even if subsumed answers a...
Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...