Computing an equi-join followed by a duplicate eliminating projection is conventionally done by performing the two operations in serial. If some join attribute is projected away t...
— When a database system is extended with the skyline operator, it is important to determine the most efficient way to execute a skyline query across tables with join operations...
Wen Jin, Michael D. Morse, Jignesh M. Patel, Marti...
Efficient processing of aggregation queries is essential for decision support applications. This paper describes a class of query transformations, called eager aggregation and lat...
Conventional operators for data retrieval are either based on exact matching or on total order relationship among elements. Neither of them is appropriate to manage complex data, s...
Ontology alignment (or matching) is the operation that takes two ontologies and produces a set of semantic correspondences (usually semantic similarities) between some elements of ...