In this paper we introduce generalized projections (GPs), an extension of duplicateeliminating projections, that capture aggregations, groupbys, duplicate-eliminating projections ...
We address the problem of finding parallel plans for SQL queries using the two-phase approach of join ordering and query rewrite (JOQR) followed by parallelization. We focus on t...
This paper presents the advantages of combining multiple document representation schemes for query processing of XML queries on content and structure. We show how extending the Te...
Given a set of keyphrases, we analyze how Web queries with these phrases can be formed that, taken altogether, return a specified number of hits. The use case of this problem is a ...
Abstract. Query expansion is a well known method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. In this work we have tested different approaches to extract the candid...