In a variety of applications, ranging from data integration to distributed query evaluation, there is a need to obtain sets of data items from several sources (peers) and compute ...
XML has become the standard for data exchange for a wide variety of applications, particularly in the scientific community. In order to efficiently process queries on XML repres...
Derek Phillips, Ning Zhang 0002, Ihab F. Ilyas, M....
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
The use of inaccurate or outdated database statistics by the query optimizer in a relational DBMS often results in a poor choice of query execution plans and hence unacceptably lo...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...
An increasing number of planners can handle uncertainty in the domain or in action outcomes. However, less work has addressed building plans when the planner's world can chan...