— Research on query optimization has traditionally focused on exhaustive enumeration of an exponential number of candidate plans. Alternatively, heuristics for query optimization...
Abstract. The object-oriented database management systems store references to objects (implicit joins, precomputed joins), and use path expressions in query languages. One way of e...
Applications that monitor functions over rapidly and unpredictably changing data, express their needs as continuous queries. Our focus is on a rich class of queries, expressed as p...
Data broadcasting is well known for its excellent scalability. Multi-dimensional range queries, such as spatial range queries of geographical information for location dependent se...
The view selection problem is to choose a set of views to materialize over a database schema, such that the cost of evaluating a set of workload queries is minimized and such that ...