Unlike traditional database queries, keyword queries do not adhere to predefined syntax and are often dirty with irrelevant words from natural languages. This makes accurate and e...
A previously proposed Keyword Search paradigm produces, as a query result, a ranked list of Object Summaries (OSs); each OS summarizes all data held in a relational database about ...
Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
Search engine quality is impacted by two factors: the quality of the ranking/matching algorithm used and the freshness of the search engine’s index, which maintains a “snapsho...
Jie Xu, Qinglan Li, Huiming Qu, Alexandros Labrini...
This paper introduces the concept of letting an RDBMS Optimizer optimize its own environment. In our project, we have used the DB2 Optimizer to tackle the index selection problem,...
Gary Valentin, Michael Zuliani, Daniel C. Zilio, G...