Recent research in domain-independent information extraction holds the promise of an automatically-constructed structured database derived from the Web. A query system based on th...
In data stream processing systems, Quality of Service (or QoS) requirements, as specified by users, are extremely important. Unlike in a database management system (DBMS), a query...
Real-world datasets exhibit a complex dependency structure among the data attributes. Learning this structure is a key task in automatic statistics configuration for query optimi...
Materialized views can provide massive improvements in query processing time, especially for aggregation queries over large tables. To realize this potential, the query optimizer ...
Efficient visibility queries are key in many interactive rendering techniques, such as occlusion culling, level of detail determination, and perceptual rendering. The occlusion q...