: Cost-based optimizers in relational databases make use of data statistics to estimate intermediate result cardinalities. Those cardinalities are needed to estimate access plan co...
We present a "parts and structure" model for object category recognition that can be learnt efficiently and in a weakly-supervised manner: the model is learnt from examp...
One of the most challenging tasks for the database administrator is to physically design the database to attain optimal performance for a given workload. Physical design is hard b...
Cristina Maier, Debabrata Dash, Ioannis Alagiannis...
The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast number of documents in today's large databases and especially on World Wide Web ca...
Element constructor is one of most expensive operations of the XQuery language as it requires deep copy of the nodes which make up the content of the constructed element. In this ...