We study XML stream-specific schema-based optimization. We assume a widely-adopted automata-based execution model for XQuery evaluation. Criteria are established regarding what s...
Graphs are prevalently used to model the relationships between objects in various domains. With the increasing usage of graph databases, it has become more and more demanding to e...
Abstract-- We introduce join scheduling algorithms that employ a balanced network utilization metric to optimize the use of all network paths in a global-scale database federation....
Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Andreas Terzis, Amo...
We present a technique for organizing data in spatial databases with non-convex domains based on an automatic characterization using the medial-axis transform (MAT). We define a t...
Eric A. Perlman, Randal C. Burns, Michael M. Kazhd...
Although approximate query processing is a prominent way to cope with the requirements of data analysis applications, current database systems do not provide integrated and compre...