— To generate plans for collecting data for data mining, an important problem is information volatility during planning: the information needed by the planning system may change ...
In information-integration systems, sources may have diverse and limited query capabilities. In this paper we show that because sources have restrictions on retrieving their infor...
XTCcmp, the XQuery Compiler of a native XML database system, extends Starburst's well-known Query Graph Model to serve as an internal representation and basis for query restr...
Traditional query processors generate full, accurate query results, either in batch or in pipelined fashion. We argue that this strict model is too rigid for exploratory queries o...
Progressive Optimization (POP) is a technique to make query plans robust, and minimize need for DBA intervention, by repeatedly re-optimizing a query during runtime if the cardina...
Vijayshankar Raman, Volker Markl, David E. Simmen,...