Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a ...
Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...
: Database-internal statistics are very important for cost-based query optimizers. Only if an optimizer has accurate statistical information about data, it provides excellent execu...
The Decomposition Storage Model (DSM) vertically partitions all attributes of a given relation. DSM has excellent I/O behavior when the number of attributes touched in the query i...
In our research on superimposed information management, we have developed applications where information elements in the superimposed layer serve to annotate, comment, restructure...
Sudarshan Murthy, David Maier, Lois M. L. Delcambr...