: We explore the complex problem of providing searching services across interoperable heterogeneous federated digital library systems with rich structure and content. We discuss sy...
This paper describes progress toward improving user interfaces for US Federal government statistics that are presented in tables. Based on studies of user behaviors and needs rela...
Gary Marchionini, Carol A. Hert, Liz Liddy, Ben Sh...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
Progressive Optimization (POP) is a technique to make query plans robust, and minimize need for DBA intervention, by repeatedly re-optimizing a query during runtime if the cardina...
Vijayshankar Raman, Volker Markl, David E. Simmen,...
Driven by the success of the Linked Open Data initiative today’s Semantic Web is best characterized as a Web of interlinked datasets. Hand in hand with this structure new challen...
Andreas Schwarte, Peter Haase, Katja Hose, Ralf Sc...