Estimating the result size of complex queries that involve selection on multiple attributes and the join of several relations is a difficult but fundamental task in database query...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
We consider an architecture of mediators and wrappers for Internet accessible WebSources of limited query capability. Each call to a source is a WebSource Implementation (WSI) and...
Vladimir Zadorozhny, Laura Bright, Louiqa Raschid,...
For object-oriented databases we propose a new technique for optimizing queries containing method invocations. This technique is based on the definition of inverse methods and que...
Several studies have focused on the efficient processing of simple spatial query types such as selections and spatial joins. Little work, however, has been done towards the optimiz...