Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
Virtually all proposals for querying XML include a class of query we term "containment queries". It is also clear that in the foreseeable future, a substantial amount of...
Chun Zhang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt, ...
We study new hierarchical indexing approach to process XPATH queries. Here, a hierarchical index consists of index entries that are pairs of queries and their (full/partial) answer...
Integrating wireless sensor networks in heterogeneous networks is a complex task. A reason is the absence of a standardized data exchange format that is supported in all participa...
Nils Hoeller, Christoph Reinke, Jana Neumann, Sven...
Semantic query optimization (SQO) has been proved to be quite useful in various applications (e.g., data integration, graphical query generators, caching, etc.) and has been extens...