In this paper we discuss a new type of query in Spatial Databases, called the Trip Planning Query (TPQ). Given a set of points of interest P in space, where each point belongs to ...
RDF (“Resource Description Framework”) is now a widely used World Wide Web Consortium standard. However, methods to index large volumes of RDF data are still in their infancy....
Octavian Udrea, Andrea Pugliese, V. S. Subrahmania...
Abstract-- We introduce join scheduling algorithms that employ a balanced network utilization metric to optimize the use of all network paths in a global-scale database federation....
Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Andreas Terzis, Amo...
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
The view selection problem is to choose a set of views to materialize over a database schema, such that the cost of evaluating a set of workload queries is minimized and such that ...