While much work has addressed the problem of maintaining materialized views, the important question of optimizing queries in the presence of materialized views has not been resolv...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravi Krishnamurthy, Spyros Pota...
We describe a numbering scheme for versions with alternatives that has a useful lexicographical ordering. The version hierarchy is a tree. By inspection of the version numbers, we...
We describe set-oriented algorithms for mining association rules. Such algorithms imply performing multiple joins and may appear to be inherently less escient than special-purpose...
Data compression is one way to alleviate the 1/0bottleneck problem faced by I/O-intensive applications such as databases. However, this approach is not widely used because of the ...
We address the problem of providing integrated access to diverse and dynamic information sources. We explain how this problem di ers from the traditional database integration probl...