Intuitively, aggressive work sharing among concurrent queries in a database system should always improve performance by eliminating redundant computation or data accesses. We show...
Ryan Johnson, Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis...
XML has become the standard for data exchange for a wide variety of applications, particularly in the scientific community. In order to efficiently process queries on XML repres...
Derek Phillips, Ning Zhang 0002, Ihab F. Ilyas, M....
Visual Query Languages represent an evolution, in terms of understandability and adaptability, with respect to traditional textual languages. We present an iconic query system tha...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Andrea De Lucia,...
Abstract. Besides topological relations and approximate relations, cardinal directions have turned out to be an important class of qualitative spatial relations. In spatial databas...
Tao Chen, Markus Schneider, Ganesh Viswanathan, We...
Routing in unstructured peer-to-peer systems relies either on broadcasting (also called flooding) or on routing indices. An approach using routing indices is only scalable if the...