The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
The paper considers robust optimization to cope with uncertainty about the stock return process in one period option hedging problems. The robust approach relates portfolio choice ...
Background: Knowing which proteins exist in a certain organism or cell type and how these proteins interact with each other are necessary for the understanding of biological proce...
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...