Graphs have become popular for modeling structured data. As a result, graph queries are becoming common and graph indexing has come to play an essential role in query processing. ...
Abstract. Estimating the sizes of query results, and intermediate results, is crucial to many aspects of query processing. In particular, it is necessary for effective query optimi...
With the explosion in the amount of semi-structured data users access and store, there is a need for complex search tools to retrieve often very heterogeneous data in a simple and ...
Polygonal objects are characterized by the following well-known parameters: number of vertices, area, perimeter and so on. These parameters describe the data sets that are used in...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneid...
Querying document-centric XML collections with structure conditions improves retrieval precisions. The structures of such XML collections, however, are often too complex for users...