The cost of a query plan depends on many parameters, such as predicate selectivities and available memory, whose values may not be known at optimization time. Parametric query opt...
—It is increasingly common to find graphs in which edges bear different types, indicating a variety of relationships. For such graphs we propose a class of reachability queries ...
Wenfei Fan, Jianzhong Li, Shuai Ma, Nan Tang, Ying...
With the proliferation of geo-positioning and geo-tagging, spatial web objects that possess both a geographical location and a textual description are gaining in prevalence, and s...
Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Christian S. Jensen, Beng Chin ...
We study several transparent techniques for scaling dynamic content web sites, and we evaluate their relative impact when used in combination. Full transparency implies strong dat...
Managing multiple versions of XML documents represents an important problem, because of many applications ranging from traditional ones, such as software configuration control, to...