In the last decade, spatio-temporal database research focuses on the design of effective and efficient indexing structures in support of location-based queries such as predictive...
: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...
Large-scale Parallel Web Search Engines (WSEs) needs to adopt a strategy for partitioning the inverted index among a set of parallel server nodes. In this paper we are interested ...
Histograms have been widely used for fast estimation of query result sizes in query optimization. In this paper, we propose a new histogram method, called the Skew-Tolerant Histog...
Yohan J. Roh, Jae Ho Kim, Yon Dohn Chung, Jin Hyun...
Recent technology advances have enabled mediated query processing with Internet accessible WebSources. A characteristic of WebSources is that their access costs exhibit transient ...