Table partitioning splits a table into smaller parts that can be accessed, stored, and maintained independent of one another. From their traditional use in improving query perform...
Textual patterns have been used effectively to extract information from large text collections. However they rely heavily on textual redundancy in the sense that facts have to be m...
: Schema mapping techniques for data exchange have become popular and useful tools both in research and industry. A schema mapping relates a source schema with a target schema via ...
Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL require a sorted stream of tuples for efficient processing. Therefore, processing complex relational queries relies on efficient a...
In recent years, several methods have been proposed for implementing interactive similarity queries on multimedia databases. Common to all these methods is the idea to exploit use...