Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of tuples returned by a query; it is a fundamentally important task in data management, used in query optimization, ...
The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
In this paper, a series of window-based methods is proposed for information retrieval. Compared with traditional tf-idf model, our approaches are based on two new key notions. The ...
Spatio-temporal databases store information about the positions of individual objects over time. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communication ...
Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Panos Kalnis, Jun Zh...
In this paper, we describe the TIMBER XML database system implemented at University of Michigan. TIMBER was one of the first native XML database systems, designed from the ground ...