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SSDBM
1999
IEEE
135views Database» more  SSDBM 1999»
15 years 5 months ago
Query Processing in the TAMBIS Bioinformatics Source Integration System
Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...
ECIR
2006
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Efficient Phrase Querying with Common Phrase Index
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a common phrase index as an efficient index structure to support phrase queries in a very large text database. Our structure is an extension of ...
Matthew Chang, Chung Keung Poon
EDBT
2004
ACM
147views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
15 years 7 months ago
Clustering Multidimensional Extended Objects to Speed Up Execution of Spatial Queries
Abstract. We present a cost-based adaptive clustering method to improve average performance of spatial queries (intersection, containment, enclosure queries) over large collections...
Cristian-Augustin Saita, François Llirbat
ICDT
1999
ACM
72views Database» more  ICDT 1999»
15 years 5 months ago
On the Generation of 2-Dimensional Index Workloads
A large number of database index structures have been proposed over the last two decades, and little consensus has emerged regarding their relative e ectiveness. In order to empir...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Lisa Hellerstein, George Ko...
VLDB
2005
ACM
122views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
15 years 7 months ago
Optimizing Nested Queries with Parameter Sort Orders
Nested iteration is an important technique for query evaluation. It is the default way of executing nested subqueries in SQL. Although decorrelation often results in cheaper non-n...
Ravindra Guravannavar, H. S. Ramanujam, S. Sudarsh...