The paper presents an unified Description Logic (DL) model for databases. Describing database models using DLs is a fundamental problem in many areas because it turns databases to...
Personalized database systems give users answers tailored to their personal preferences. While numerous preference evaluation methods for databases have been proposed (e.g., skylin...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
One of the most powerful features of SQL is the use of nested queries. Most research work on the optimization of nested queries focuses on aggregate subqueries. However, the solut...
We propose a radical approach to relational query processing that aims at automatically and consistently achieving a good performance on any memory hierarchy. We believe this auto...
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...