XML database systems are expected to handle increasingly complex queries over increasingly large and highly structured XML databases. An important problem that needs to be solved ...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
The problem of skyline computation has attracted considerable research attention. In the categorical domain the problem becomes more complicated, primarily due to the partially-or...
Nikos Sarkas, Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Anthony K. ...
Data lineage and data provenance are key to the management of scientific data. Not knowing the exact provenance and processing pipeline used to produce a derived data set often re...
Existing temporal pattern mining assumes that events do not have any duration. However, events in many real world applications have durations, and the relationships among these ev...
Accurate cardinality estimation is critically important to high-quality query optimization. It is well known that conventional cardinality estimation based on histograms or simila...