Cardinality estimation during query optimization relies on simplifying assumptions that usually do not hold in practice. To diminish the impact of inaccurate estimates during opti...
Robust, global, address geocoding is challenging because there is no single address format that applies to all geographies, and in any case, users may not restrict themselves to w...
Vibhuti S. Sengar, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Samar...
Popular XML languages, like XPath, use “treepattern” queries to select nodes based on their structural characteristics. While many processing methods have already been propose...
This paper describes the evaluation of ERST, an adaptive system which is designed to improve its users' external representation (ER) selection accuracy on a range of database ...
Utility elicitation is an important component of many applications, such as decision support systems and recommender systems. Such systems query users about their preferences and ...