Existing index selection tools rely on heuristics to efficiently search within the large space of alternative solutions and to minimize the overhead of using the query optimizer ...
Many network-management problems in large backbone networks need the answer to a seemingly simple question: where does a given IP packet, entering the network at a particular plac...
Yaping Zhu, Jennifer Rexford, Subhabrata Sen, Aman...
The generalized hypertree width GHW(H) of a hypergraph H is a measure of its cyclicity. Classes of conjunctive queries or constraint satisfaction problems whose associated hypergr...
Queries to data warehouses often involve hundreds of complex aggregations over large volumes of data, and so it is infeasible to compute these queries by scanning the data sources ...
Traditional DBMSs decouple statistics collection and query optimization both in space and time. Decoupling in time may lead to outdated statistics. Decoupling in space may cause s...
Amr El-Helw, Ihab F. Ilyas, Wing Lau, Volker Markl...