The query optimizer of a database system is confronted with two aspects when handling user-defined functions (UDFs) in query predicates: the vast differences in evaluation costs b...
Efficient one-pass computation of F0, the number of distinct elements in a data stream, is a fundamental problem arising in various contexts in databases and networking. We consid...
Overlapping and multi-version techniques are two popular frameworks that transform an ephemeral index into a multiple logical-tree structure in order to support versioning databas...
A mediator is a domain-speci c tool to support uniform access to multiple heterogeneous information sources and to abstract and combine data from different but related databases t...
Jacques Calmet, Sebastian Jekutsch, Joachim Sch&uu...
Many databases have become Web-accessible through form-based search interfaces (i.e., HTML forms) that allow users to specify complex and precise queries to access the underlying ...
Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Yiyao Lu, Clement T. Yu, Zongh...