We consider the problem of creating a sample view of a database table. A sample view is an indexed, materialized view that permits efficient sampling from an arbitrary range query...
This paper addresses issues related to containment join processing in tree-structured data such as XML documents. A containment join takes two sets of XML node elements as input a...
Wei Wang 0011, Haifeng Jiang, Hongjun Lu, Jeffrey ...
In high-dimensional and complex metric spaces, determining the nearest neighbor (NN) of a query object ? can be a very expensive task, because of the poor partitioning operated by...
Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL require a sorted stream of tuples for efficient processing. Therefore, processing complex relational queries relies on efficient a...
Extracting key-frames is the first step for efficient content-based indexing, browsing and retrieval of the video data in commercial movies. Most of the existing research deals wi...