An important problem for many location-based applications is the continuous evaluation of proximity relations among moving objects. These relations express whether a given set of ...
Abstract. We introduce AdaptPD, an automated physical design tool that improves database performance by continuously monitoring changes in the workload and adapting the physical de...
Recently, there has been increasing interest in extending relational query processing to include data obtained from unstructured sources. A common approach is to use stand-alone I...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo...
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
Abstract. Even though SQL has become widely accepted as a language for implementing relational database schemas and querying data, there are cases where s experience the need for n...