In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...
Querying any information system requires the knowledge of some formal language, making it inaccessible to computer-na?ve potential users. We propose a new intuitive querying mecha...
As video data is penetrating many information systems the need for database support for video data evolves. In this paper we present a generic data model that captures the structu...
Semantic query optimization can dramatically speed up database query answering by knowledge intensive reformulation. But the problem of how to learn required semantic rules has no...
Handling parallelism in database systems involves the specification of a storage model, a placement strategy, and a query processing strategy. An important goal is to determine th...
Setrag Khoshafian, George P. Copeland, Thomas Jago...