Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to ...
Existing index selection tools rely on heuristics to efficiently search within the large space of alternative solutions and to minimize the overhead of using the query optimizer ...
Content based image retrieval (CBIR), a technique which uses visual contents to search images from the large scale image databases, is an active area of research for the past decad...
Amit Jain, Ramanathan Muthuganapathy, Karthik Rama...
Many databases have become Web-accessible through form-based search interfaces (i.e., search forms) that allow users to specify complex and precise queries to access the underlying...
This paper describes the architectures that can be used to build highly available database management systems. We describe these architectures along two dimensions – process redu...
Sam Drake, Wei Hu, Dale M. McInnis, Martin Skö...