An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
While there are known performance trade-offs between database page buffer pool and query execution memory allocation policies, little has been written on the impact of query compi...
Boris Baryshnikov, Cipri Clinciu, Conor Cunningham...
Traditional content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems often fail to meet a user's need due to the `semantic gap' between the extracted features of the systems and the...
Data integration systems provide a uniform query interface (UQI) to multiple, autonomous data sources [4]. This paper presents the universal data model (UDM) that captures the sem...
Good cardinality estimates are critical for generating good execution plans during query optimization. Complex predicates, correlations between columns, and user-defined functions...