Decision support applications involve complex queries on very large databases. Since response times should be small, query optimization is critical. Users typically view the data ...
Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ull...
Text categorization and retrieval tasks are often based on a good representation of textual data. Departing from the classical vector space model, several probabilistic models have...
Pinpoint is a promising first step towards using a rich model of task context in proactive and dynamic IR systems. Pinpoint allows a user to navigate decision tree representations...
Larry Birnbaum, Wallace J. Hopp, Seyed M. R. Irava...
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...
The huge amount of data available from Internet information sources has focused much attention on the sharing of distributed information through Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS...