Data Warehousing and OLAPapplications typically view data as having multiple logical dimensions e.g., product, location with natural hierarchies de ned on each dimension. OLAP que...
We propose a mathematical framework for query selection as a mechanism for reducing the cost of constructing information retrieval test collections. In particular, our mathematica...
Mehdi Hosseini, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Frayl...
We examine the problem of evaluating selection queries over imprecisely represented objects. Such objects are used either because they are much smaller in size than the precise on...
Many commercial database systems maintain histograms to summarize the contents of relations and permit efficient estimation of query result sizes and access plan costs. Although s...
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Peter J. H...
The maintenance of large raster images under spatial operations is still a major performance bottleneck. For reasons of storage space, images in a collection, such as satellite pi...