Prediction is emerging as an essential ingredient for real-time monitoring, planning and decision support applications such as intrusion detection, e-commerce pricing and automate...
In a binary symmetric relationship, A is related to B if and only if B is related to A. Symmetric relationships between k participating entities can be represented as multisets of...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...
Independence analysis is the problem of determining whether an update affects the result of a query, e.g. a constraint or materialized view. We develop a new, modular framework fo...
A new type of optimization, called predicate move-around, ia introduced. It is shown how this optimization `considerably improvea the efficiency of evaluating SQL queries that hav...
Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagi...