A "plan diagram" is a pictorial enumeration of the execution plan choices of a database query optimizer over the relational selectivity space. We have shown recently tha...
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 Sacc...
In this paper, we present an automatic web image mining system towards building a universal human age estimator based on facial information, which is applicable to all ethnic grou...
Pattern matching and analysis over network data streams is increasingly becoming an essential primitive of network monitoring systems. It is a fundamental part of most intrusion d...
While classic information retrieval methods return whole documents as a result of a query, many information demands would be better satisfied by fine-grain access inside the docu...