We enunciate the need for watermarking database relations to deter data piracy, identify the characteristics of relational data that pose unique challenges for watermarking, and de...
In order to optimize their revenues and profits, an increasing number of businesses organize their business activities in terms of business processes. Typically, they automate imp...
Marko Vrhovnik, Holger Schwarz, Oliver Suhre, Bern...
Accurate cardinality estimation is critically important to high-quality query optimization. It is well known that conventional cardinality estimation based on histograms or simila...
Good cardinality estimates are critical for generating good execution plans during query optimization. Complex predicates, correlations between columns, and user-defined functions...
Skyline queries have gained a lot of attention for multicriteria analysis in large-scale datasets. While existing skyline algorithms have focused mostly on exploiting data dominan...