There has been a great deal of work in recent years on processing and optimizing queries against XML data. Typically in these previous works, schema information is not considered,...
Stelios Paparizos, Jignesh M. Patel, H. V. Jagadis...
Rewriting queries using views is a powerful technique that has applications in query optimization, data integration, data warehousing etc. Query rewriting in relational databases ...
Advanced Data Mining applications require more and more support from relational database engines. Especially clustering applications in high dimensional features space demand a pr...
Abstract. Nearest-neighbor queries in high-dimensional space are of high importance in various applications, especially in content-based indexing of multimedia data. For an optimiz...
Abstract. In order to effectively and quickly answer queries in environments with distributed RDF/OWL, we present a query optimization algorithm to identify the potentially relevan...