In this paper we propose interaction-driven Markov games (IDMGs), a new model for multiagent decision making under uncertainty. IDMGs aim at describing multiagent decision problem...
Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of tuples returned by a query; it is a fundamentally important task in data management, used in query optimization, ...
Data integration from multiple autonomous data sources has emerged as an important practical problem. The key requirement for such data integration is that owners of such data nee...
Amr El Abbadi, Aziz Gulbeden, Divyakant Agrawal, F...
The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
As XML database sizes grow, the amount of space used for storing the data and auxiliary data structures becomes a major factor in query and update performance. This paper presents...