A new approach to query optimization, truly adaptive optimization (TAO), is presented. TAO is a general optimization strategy and is composed of three elements:
Retrieving images by content and forming visual queries are important functionality of an image database system. Using textual descriptions to specify queries on image content is ...
David Wai-Lok Cheung, Chi-Hung Lee, Vincent T. Y. ...
This paper introduces U-relations, a succinct and purely relational representation system for uncertain databases. U-relations support attribute-level uncertainty using vertical pa...
Lyublena Antova, Thomas Jansen, Christoph Koch, Da...
We propose a two-pha.se algorithm for physical database design. In phase one the algorithm, for each logical query, losesrules to determine characteristics of a physical design (s...