Abstract— Distributed stream-based applications, such as continuous query systems, have network scale and time characteristics that challenge traditional distributed query optimi...
Jeffrey Shneidman, Peter R. Pietzuch, Matt Welsh, ...
— Research on query optimization has traditionally focused on exhaustive enumeration of an exponential number of candidate plans. Alternatively, heuristics for query optimization...
Even if high-level query languages are used, query formulation may cause problems. This is notably so in case of large and complex application domains. Typical examples of these k...
Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Henderik Alex Proper, T...
XML data warehouses form an interesting basis for decision-support applications that exploit complex data. However, native XML database management systems currently bear limited p...
The paper proposes an extension of CFDs [1], referred to as extended Conditional Functional Dependencies (eCFDs). In contrast to CFDs, eCFDs specify patterns of semantically relate...