In peer-to-peer (P2P) systems where individual peers must cooperate to process each other's requests, a useful metric for evaluating the system is how many remote requests ar...
The state of the art commercial query optimizers employ cost-based optimization and exploit dynamic programming (DP) to find the optimal query execution plan (QEP) without evalua...
We present a system for efficient indexed querying of XML documents, enhanced with sibling operations. R-tree index proposed in [5] has a very high cost for the following-sibling...
The Symbolic Probabilistic Inference (SPI) Algorithm [D'Ambrosio, 19891 provides an efficient framework for resolving general queries on a belief network. It applies the conc...
Ross D. Shachter, Bruce D'Ambrosio, Brendan Del Fa...
Automated physical design tuning for database systems has recently become an active area of research and development. Existing tuning tools explore the space of feasible solutions...