Queries issued by casual users or specialists exploring a data set often point us to important subsets of the data, be it clusters, outliers or other features of particular import...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
Abstract. This paper describes an approach for the integration of linguistic information in passage retrieval in an open-source question answering system for Dutch. Annotation prod...
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,...