Histograms are used to summarize the contents of relations into a number of buckets for the estimation of query result sizes. Several techniques (e.g., MaxDiff and V-Optimal) have ...
Francesco Buccafurri, Gianluca Lax, Domenico SaccÃ...
Data integration systems offer a uniform interface to a set of data sources. Despite recent progress, setting up and maintaining a data integration application still requires sign...
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
In the implementation of hosted business services, multiple tenants are often consolidated into the same database to reduce total cost of ownership. Common practice is to map mult...
Stefan Aulbach, Torsten Grust, Dean Jacobs, Alfons...
Today's enterprise databases are large and complex, often relating hundreds of entities. Enabling ordinary users to query such databases and derive value from them has been o...