In this paper, we study the evaluation of skyline queries with partially-ordered attributes. Because such attributes lack a total ordering, traditional index-based evaluation algo...
Many enterprise applications prefer to store XML data as a rich data type, i.e. a sequence of bytes, in a relational database system to avoid the complexity of decomposing the dat...
Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Oliver Seeliger, Michae...
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
The creation of a generic and modular query optimization and processing infrastructure can provide significant benefits to XML data management. Key pieces of such an infrastructur...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...
On-line analytical processing (OLAP) requires e cient processing of complex decision support queries over very large databases. It is well accepted that pre-computed data cubes ca...
David Wai-Lok Cheung, Bo Zhou, Ben Kao, Hongjun Lu...