We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Abstract. We introduce an extended computational framework for studying biological systems. Our approach combines formalization of existing qualitative models that are in wide but ...
Irit Gat-Viks, Amos Tanay, Daniela Raijman, Ron Sh...
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 ...
The skyline of a set of d-dimensional points contains the points that are not dominated by any other point on all dimensions. Skyline computation has recently received considerabl...
Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Greg Fu, Bernhard Se...
Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...