In a variety of applications, ranging from data integration to distributed query evaluation, there is a need to obtain sets of data items from several sources (peers) and compute ...
Background: Expressed sequence tag (EST) collections are composed of a high number of single-pass, redundant, partial sequences, which need to be processed, clustered, and annotat...
Query optimizers in current database systems are designed to pick a single efficient plan for a given query based on current statistical properties of the data. However, different...
Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jen...
The widespread use of sensor networks in scientific and engineering applications leads to increased demand on the efficient computation of the collected sensor data. Recent rese...
Moustafa A. Hammad, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmaga...
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...