In many scientific domains, researchers are turning to large-scale behavioral simulations to better understand real-world phenomena. While there has been a great deal of work on s...
Guozhang Wang, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Benjamin...
Companies providing cloud-scale services have an increasing need to store and analyze massive data sets such as search logs and click streams. For cost and performance reasons, pr...
Good cardinality estimates are critical for generating good execution plans during query optimization. Complex predicates, correlations between columns, and user-defined functions...
Keyword search enables web users to easily access XML data without the need to learn a structured query language and to study possibly complex data schemas. Existing work has addr...
A query against a database behind a site like Napster may search, e.g., for all users who have downloaded more jazz titles than pop music titles. In order to express such queries,...