Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
In the last several years, large multi-dimensional databases have become common in a variety of applications such as data warehousing and scientific computing. Analysis and explor...
A relational ranking query uses a scoring function to limit the results of a conventional query to a small number of the most relevant answers. The increasing popularity of this q...
Karl Schnaitter, Joshua Spiegel, Neoklis Polyzotis
PLASTIC [1] is a recently-proposed tool to help query optimizers significantly amortize optimization overheads through a technique of plan recycling. The tool groups similar quer...
We consider an architecture of mediators and wrappers for Internet accessible WebSources of limited query capability. Each call to a source is a WebSource Implementation (WSI) and...
Vladimir Zadorozhny, Laura Bright, Louiqa Raschid,...