Advanced database systems face a great challenge raised by the emergence of massive, complex structural data in bioinformatics, chem-informatics, and many other applications. The ...
This paper introduces the Tuple Graph (TuG) synopses, a new class of data summaries that enable accurate selectivity estimates for complex relational queries. The proposed summari...
Logical constraints, (e.g., 'phone numbers in toronto can have prefixes 416, 647, 905 only'), are ubiquitous in relational databases. Traditional integrity constraints, ...
Amit Chandel, Nick Koudas, Ken Q. Pu, Divesh Sriva...
We present a formal framework for capturing the provenance of data appearing in XQuery views of XML. Building on previous work on relations and their (positive) query languages, w...
Support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used in multimedia retrieval to learn a concept in order to find the best matches. In such a SVM active learning environment, the ...