The goal of a mediator system is to provide users a uniform interface to the multitude of information sources. To translate user queries, given in a mediated schema, to queries on...
The enhanced pay-per-view (EPPV) model for providing continuous-media-on-demand(CMOD) services associates with each continuous media clip a display frequency that dependson the cl...
Data is often stored in summarized form, as a histogram of aggregates (COUNTs, SUMs, or AVeraGes) over speci ed ranges. We study how to estimate the original detail data from the ...
Christos Faloutsos, H. V. Jagadish, Nikolaos Sidir...
In this paper, we present and evaluate alternative techniques to effect the use of location-independent identifiers in distributed database systems. Location-independent identi...
In recentyears,databaseresearchandproduct developmentactivities havefocusedonsupport for non-traditional data types, such astext or multi-media documents.This paper describes an a...
In this paper we describe novel techniques that make it possible to build an industrial-strength tool for automating the choice of indexes in the physical design of a SQL database...