Abstract. Parallel relational databases have been successful in providing scalable performance for data intensive applications, and much work has been carried out on query processi...
Sandra de F. Mendes Sampaio, Jim Smith, Norman W. ...
Query optimizers rely on fast, high-quality estimates of result sizes in order to select between various join plans. Selfjoin sizes of relations provide bounds on the join size of...
Noga Alon, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Mario...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
XML structural joins, which evaluate the containment (ancestor-descendant) relationships between XML elements, are important operations of XML query processing. Estimating structu...
Abstract. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) with global features is notoriously noisy, especially for image queries with low percentages of relevant images in a collection. More...
Avi Arampatzis, Konstantinos Zagoris, Savvas A. Ch...