The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
In this paper, we study a novel problem Collective Active Learning, in which we aim to select a batch set of "informative" instances from a networking data set to query ...
A set of presentations covering the book, which includes the following topics ER Model and Conceptual Design, The Relational Model and SQL DDL, Relational Algebra, SQL, Database Ap...
A Data Warehouse DW can be abstractly seen as a set of materialized views de ned over relations that are stored in distributed heterogeneous databases. The selection of views for...
Spyros Ligoudistianos, Timos K. Sellis, Dimitri Th...
We propose a simple approach to combining first-order logic and probabilistic graphical models in a single representation. A Markov logic network (MLN) is a first-order knowledge b...