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...
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 ...
Abstract. We present a cost-based adaptive clustering method to improve average performance of spatial queries (intersection, containment, enclosure queries) over large collections...
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...
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...