Parametric polymorphism constrains the behavior of pure functional programs in a way that allows the derivation of interesting theorems about them solely from their types, i.e., v...
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
Abstract Traditional nearest-neighbor (NN) search is based on two basic indexing approaches: object-based indexing and solution-based indexing. The former is constructed based on t...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
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 ...
Monitoring is an issue of primary concern in current and next generation networked systems. For example, the objective of sensor networks is to monitor their surroundings for a va...
Ram Keralapura, Graham Cormode, Jeyashankher Ramam...