Evaluation and applicability of many database techniques, ranging from access methods, histograms, and optimization strategies to data normalization and mining, crucially depend o...
Many existing access controls use node filtering or querying rewriting techniques. These techniques require rather time-consuming processes such as parsing, labeling, pruning and/...
Existing index selection tools rely on heuristics to efficiently search within the large space of alternative solutions and to minimize the overhead of using the query optimizer ...
The Web is moving to a new generation in which machine-understandable processing is mandatory. In order to achieve this goal it is essential to define ontologies which enable the ...
Many databases have become Web-accessible through form-based search interfaces (i.e., search forms) that allow users to specify complex and precise queries to access the underlying...