DeXIN (Distributed extended XQuery for data INtegration) integrates multiple, heterogeneous, highly distributed and rapidly changing web data sources in different formats, e.g. XML...
Muhammad Intizar Ali, Reinhard Pichler, Hong Linh ...
Query processing is one of the most, critical issues in Object-Oriented DBMSs. Extensible opt,imizers with efficient, search strategies require a cost model to select the most eff...
Georges Gardarin, Jean-Robert Gruser, Zhao-Hui Tan...
Histogram techniques have been used in many commercial database management systems to estimate a query result size. Recently, it has been shown that they are very effective to su...
A join of two relations in real databases is usually much smaller than their cartesian product. This means that most of the combinations of tuples in the crossproduct of the respe...
Pseudo-relevance feedback is an effective technique for improving retrieval results. Traditional feedback algorithms use a whole feedback document as a unit to extract words for ...