Statistics play an important role in influencing the plans produced by a query optimizer. Traditionally, optimizers use statistics built over base tables and assume independence b...
Many users need to refer to content in existing files (pictures, tables, emails, web pages and etc.) when they write documents(programs, presentations, proposals and etc.), and o...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are gaining increasing popularity as a scalable means to share data among a large number of autonomous nodes. In this paper, we consider the case in whic...
We consider the problem of estimating CPU (distance computations) and I/O costs for processing range and k-nearest neighbors queries over metric spaces. Unlike the specific case ...
In the real world, lots of objects with changing position can be found. Some of them repeat the same movement several times, called periodic movements. Examples include airplanes,...