We investigate query routing techniques in a cluster of databases for a query-dominant environment. The objective is to decrease query response time. Each component of the cluster...
In this paper, we propose a new methodology to integrate circuit transformation into routing. More specifically, this paper shows an approach for performing routing and wire recon...
Statistics play an important role in influencing the plans produced by a query optimizer. Traditionally, optimizers use statistics built over base tables and assume independence b...
The emergence of the Web has increased interests in XML data. XML query languages such as XQuery and XPath use label paths to traverse the irregularly structured data. Without a s...
In this paper we present a statistical learning scheme for image classification based on a mixture of old fashioned ideas and state of the art learning tools. We represent input i...