Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
We discuss a system for the digital capture of museum artefacts which are accumulated into a multimedia repository comprising 3D models, images, video and sound clips as well as t...
Manjula Patel, Krzysztof Walczak, Fabrizio Giorgin...
A database system contains base data items which record and model a physical, real world environment. For better decision support, base data items are summarized and correlated to...
Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) is a shared disk RDBMS. We present a high level overview of the main architectural issues of OPS and their evolution throughout the releases of the Or...
Roger Bamford, D. Butler, Boris Klots, N. MacNaugh...
The World-Wide Web consists of a huge number of unstructured documents, but it also contains structured data in the form of HTML tables. We extracted 14.1 billion HTML tables from...
Michael J. Cafarella, Alon Y. Halevy, Daisy Zhe Wa...