Complex queries often contain common or similar subexpressions, either within a single query or among multiple queries submitted as a batch. If so, query execution time can be imp...
Jingren Zhou, Johann Christoph Freytag, Per-Å...
This paper presents a novel and complementary technique to optimize an XPath query by minimizing its wildcard steps. Our approach is based on using a general composite axis called...
Users often can not easily express their queries. For example, in a multimedia image by content setting, the user might want photographs with sunsets; in current systems, like QBI...
Abstract. The performance of an information retrieval system is usually measured in terms of two different criteria, precision and recall. This way, the optimization of any of its...
Modern relational database systems are beginning to support ad hoc queries on mining models. In this paper, we explore novel techniques for optimizing queries that apply mining mo...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek R. Narasayya, Sunita Sara...