The discovery of sequential patterns, which extends beyond frequent item-set finding of association rule mining, has become a challenging task due to its complexity. Essentially, ...
In recent years, many approaches to XML twig pattern query (TPQ) processing have been developed. Some algorithms are supported by a stream abstract data type. s an abstract data ty...
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
We describe the design and implementation of a new data layout scheme, called multi-dimensional clustering, in DB2 Universal Database Version 8. Many applications, e.g., OLAP and ...
Structural join operations are central to evaluating queries against XML data, and are typically responsible for consuming a lion's share of the query processing time. Thus, ...