Generating query-answering plans for information gathering agents requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a set of virtual relations, to a query that uses relat...
In this paper, we study a simple SQL extension that enables query writers to explicitly limit the cardinality of a query result. We examine its impact on the query optimization an...
Traditional approaches for efficiently processing historical queries, where a history is a multidimensional timeseries, employ a two step filter-and-refine scheme. In the filter s...
Traditional optimizers fail to pick good execution plans, when faced with increasingly complex queries and large data sets. This failure is even more acute in the context of XQuery...
Riham Abdel Kader, Maurice van Keulen, Peter A. Bo...
Accessing data from numerous widely-distributed sources poses signi cant new challenges for query optimization and execution. Congestion and failures in the network can introduce ...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...