Abstract. Often the information present in a spatial knowledge base is represented at a different level of granularity and abstraction than the query constraints. For querying onto...
Prateek Jain, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory A. H...
In information-integration systems, source relations often have limitations on access patterns to their data; i.e., when one must provide values for certain attributes of a relatio...
Materialized views offer opportunities for significant performance gain in query evaluation by providing fast access to pre-computed data. The question of when and how to use a ma...
High-level query constructs help greatly improve the clarity of programs and the productivity of programmers, and are being introduced to increasingly more languages. However, the...
Traditional query processors generate full, accurate query results, either in batch or in pipelined fashion. We argue that this strict model is too rigid for exploratory queries o...