Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of tuples returned by a query; it is a fundamentally important task in data management, used in query optimization, ...
Indexes play a vital role in decision support systems by reducing the cost of answering complex queries. A popular methodology for choosing indexes that is adopted by database adm...
There have been several techniques proposed for building statistics for static XML data. However, very little work has been done in the area of building XML statistics for data so...
Speculation is an every day phenomenon whereby one acts in anticipation of particular conditions that are likely to hold in the future. Computer science research has seen many suc...
Structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays have been successfully employed in many applications to locate content. However, they have been less effective in handling massive amounts o...