Most decision tree classifiers are designed to keep class histograms for single attributes, and to select a particular attribute for the next split using said histograms. In this ...
This paper introduces the concept of letting an RDBMS Optimizer optimize its own environment. In our project, we have used the DB2 Optimizer to tackle the index selection problem,...
Gary Valentin, Michael Zuliani, Daniel C. Zilio, G...
We present the design and analysis of a customized access method for the content-based image retrieval system, Blobworld. Using the amdb access method analysis tool, we analyzed t...
We demonstrate a prototype toolkit that uses constraints and constraint violation repair techniques to enable the automated detection and, where possible, the automated resolution...
Iain Sutherland, John S. Robinson, Sue M. Brandt, ...
Most real-world database applications contain a substantial portion of time-referenced, or temporal, data. Recent advances in temporal query languages show that such database appl...
Giedrius Slivinskas, Christian S. Jensen, Richard ...
This paper presents an overview of Microsoft SQLServer for Windows CE. This is a database engine designed for mobile and embedded applications. The focus of the presentation is on...
Nearest neighbor queries are important in many settings, including spatial databases (Find the k closest cities) and multimedia databases (Find the k most similar images). Previou...
In contrast to specialized video servers, advanced multimedia applications for tele-shopping, tele-teaching and news-on-demand exhibit a mixed workload with massive access to conv...