XML structural joins, which evaluate the containment (ancestor-descendant) relationships between XML elements, are important operations of XML query processing. Estimating structu...
We describe an algorithm for estimating the number of page fetches for a partial or complete scan of a B-tree index. The algorithm obtains estimates for the number of page fetches ...
Abstract. The last years there is an increasing interest for query processing techniques that take into consideration the dominance relationship between objects to select the most ...
Eleftherios Tiakas, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yan...
Decision theory does not traditionally include uncertainty over utility functions. We argue that the a person's utility value for a given outcome can be treated as we treat o...
The Feature Vector approach is one of the most popular schemes for managing multimedia data. For many data types such as audio, images, or 3D models, an abundance of different Fea...