Abstract— Defining suitable indexes is a major task when optimizing a database. Usually, a human database administrator defines a set of indexes in the design phase of the data...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
In this paper, we describe an approach to boosting the performance of an XQuery engine by identifying and exploiting opportunities to share processing both within and across XML qu...
Yanlei Diao, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Mi...
The problems of accessing and integrating heterogeneous information sources are becoming centerstage problems. One problem arising from accessing heterogeneous sources is semantic...
Ngamnij Arch-int, Yuefeng Li, Paul Roe, Peraphon S...
Schema mappings are fundamental building blocks in many information integration applications. Designing mappings is a timeconsuming process and for that reason many mapping system...
The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START's sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of m...
Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy J. Lin, Sue Felshin...