The use of inaccurate or outdated database statistics by the query optimizer in a relational DBMS often results in a poor choice of query execution plans and hence unacceptably lo...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Peter J. Haas, Sam Lightstone, G...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
Mirroring Web sites is a well-known technique commonly used in the Web community. A mirror site should be updated frequently to ensure that it reflects the content of the original...
Ling Chen 0002, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wolfgang Nejdl
A significant fraction of Web data is available only for short periods of time. We consider methods to keep track and to record such dynamic information automatically. The main p...
Web Services are becoming more and more fundamental building blocks of Web-based distributed applications and a core technology for Grid systems. Due to their flexibility, Web Ser...