The paper investigates XML document speci cations with DTDs and integrity constraints, such as keysand foreign keys. We study the consistency problem of checking whether a given s...
Assume that each object in a database has m grades, or scores, one for each of m attributes. For example, an object can have a color grade, that tells how red it is, and a shape g...
Database systems frequently have to execute a set of related queries, which share several common subexpressions. Multi-query optimization exploits this, by finding evaluation plan...
Nilesh N. Dalvi, Sumit K. Sanghai, Prasan Roy, S. ...
We consider the complexity of join problems, focusing on equijoins, spatial-overlap joins, and set-containment joins. We use a graph pebbling model to characterize these joins com...
Jin-yi Cai, Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Raghav Ka...
The increasing ability to track and collect large amounts of data with the use of current hardware technology has lead to an interest in the development of data mining algorithms ...
The dimensionality curse has profound e ects on the effectiveness of high-dimensional similarity indexing from the performance perspective. One of the well known techniques for im...