Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
Estimating the result size of a join is an important query optimization problem as it determines the choice of a good query evaluation strategy. Yet, there are few efficient techni...
In recent years wavelets were shown to be effective data synopses. We are concerned with the problem of finding efficiently wavelet synopses for massive data sets, in situations...
For the foreseeable future, most data will continue to be stored in relational databases. To work with these data in ontology-based applications, tools and techniques that bridge t...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, Samson W. Tu, Cs...
Exploratory ad-hoc queries could return too many answers ? a phenomenon commonly referred to as "information overload". In this paper, we propose to automatically catego...