There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
Virtually every commercial query optimizer chooses the best plan for a query using a cost model that relies heavily on accurate cardinality estimation. Cardinality estimation erro...
Volker Markl, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen,...
Often, independent organizations define and advocate different XML formats for a similar purpose and, as a result, application programs need to mutually convert between such forma...
In today's Internet applications or sensor networks we often encounter large amounts of data spread over many physically distributed nodes. The sheer volume of the data and ba...
Ashwin Lall, Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Jun Xu, Mitsuno...
Hyperspectral images have correlation at the level of pixels; moreover, images from neighboring frequency bands are also closely correlated. In this paper, we propose to use distr...
Caimu Tang, Ngai-Man Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Cauli...