Data provenance is information that describes how a given data item was produced. The provenance includes source and intermediate data as well as the transformations involved in pr...
— Array database systems are architected for scientific and engineering applications. In these applications, the value of a cell is often imprecise and uncertain. There are at le...
Current relational databases require that a database schema exist prior to data entry and require manual optimization for best performance. We describe the query optimization tech...
Scott M. Meyer, Jutta Degener, John Giannandrea, B...
Modern query optimizers select an efficient join ordering for a physical execution plan based essentially on the average join selectivity factors among the referenced tables. In ...
The number of documents published via WWW in form of SGML/HTML has been rapidly growing for years. Efficient, declarative access mechanisms for this type of documents