Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...
Abstract— Modern database management systems (DBMS) answer a multitude of complex queries on increasingly larger datasets. Given the complexities of the queries and the numerous ...
Debabrata Dash, Ioannis Alagiannis, Cristina Maier...
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
The join operation, which combines tuples from multiple relations, is the most fundamental and, typically, the most expensive operation in database queries. The standard approach t...
Benjamin J. McMahan, Guoqiang Pan, Patrick Porter,...
This paper exploits the spatial representation of state space problem graphs to preprocess and enhance heuristic search engines. It combines classical AI exploration with computati...