Statistics play a key role in influencing the quality of plans chosen by a database query optimizer. In this paper, we identify the statistics that are essential for an optimizer....
Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...
Although there has been much written about various information integration technologies, little has been said regarding how to combine these technologies together to build an enti...
Greg Barish, Yi-Shin Chen, Dan DiPasquo, Craig A. ...
XML is here as the internet standard for information exchange among e-businesses and applications. With its dramatic adoption and its ability to model structured, unstructured and...
Optimizing queries that involve operations on spatial data requires estimating the selectivity and cost of these operations. In this paper, we focus on estimating the cost of spat...
We consider the problems of computing aggregation queries in temporal databases, and of maintaining materialized temporal aggregate views efficiently. The latter problem is partic...
Data mining has been an area of increasing interests during recent years. The association rule discovery problem in particular has been widely studied. However, there are still so...