We study the problem of finding efficient equivalent viewbased rewritings of relational queries, focusing on query optimization using materialized views under the assumption that ...
In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
The modern XML query language called XQuery includes advanced facilities both to query and to transform XML data. An XQuery query optimizer should be able to optimize any query. F...
Data on the Web is increasingly being used for discovery and exploratory tasks. Unlike traditional fact-finding tasks that require only the typical single-query and response parad...
With the substantial change of declarative query languages from plain SQL to the so-called \object SQLs", in particular OQL, there has surprisingly been not much change in the...