A spatial preference query ranks objects based on the qualities of features in their spatial neighborhood. For example, consider a real estate agency office that holds a database ...
Man Lung Yiu, Xiangyuan Dai, Nikos Mamoulis, Micha...
Query optimizers use base-table statistics to derive statistics on the sub-plans that are enumerated during optimization. In practice, traditional optimizers rely on a number of s...
XML documents are extremely verbose since the "schema" is repeated for every "record" in the document. While a variety of compressors are available to address ...
Many new database application domains such as experimental sciences and medicine are characterized by large sequences as their main form of data. Using approximate representation ...
Trees and graphs are widely used to model biological databases. Providing efficient algorithms to support tree-based or graph-based querying is therefore an important issue. In th...