A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
Typically, users interact with database systems by formulating queries. However, many times users do not have a clear understanding of their information needs or the exact content...
Abstract-- The inherent uncertainty of data present in numerous applications such as sensor databases, text annotations, and information retrieval motivate the need to handle impre...
Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Rahul Shah, Sunil ...
We study the problem of query optimization in federated relational database systems. The nature of federated databases explicitly decouples many aspects of the optimization proces...
Spatial and temporal database systems, both in theory and in practice, have developed dramatically over the past two decades to the point where usable commercial systems, underpin...
John F. Roddick, Max J. Egenhofer, Erik G. Hoel, D...