In this paper, we describe a database query system that provides visual relevance feedback in querying large databases. The goal of our system is to support the query specificati...
Understanding the performance and dynamic behavior of workflow is crucial in being able to modify, maintain, and improve it. A particularly difficult aspect of measuring the perfor...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Despite various interoperability recommendations, heterogeneity of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is still an issue. This led to an increasing need for a data integration sy...
We present an architecture and a set of challenges for peer database management systems. These systems team up to build a network of nodes (peers) that coordinate at run time most...