In a binary symmetric relationship, A is related to B if and only if B is related to A. Symmetric relationships between k participating entities can be represented as multisets of...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
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...
Abstract. The term Deep Web (sometimes also called Hidden Web) refers to the data content that is created dynamically as the result of a specific search on the Web. In this respec...
The ongoing revolution in life sciences research is producing vast amounts of genetic and proteomic sequence data. Scientists want to pose increasingly complex queries on this dat...
Sandeep Tata, Jignesh M. Patel, James S. Friedman,...