Abstract. As it is well-known, querying and managing structured data in natural language is a challenging task due to its ambiguity (syntactic and semantic) and its expressiveness....
We address aggregate queries over GIS data and moving object data, where non-spatial information is stored in a data warehouse. We propose a formal data model and query language t...
Although keyword query enables inexperienced users to easily search XML database with no specific knowledge of complex structured query languages or XML data schemas, the ambigui...
A large number of database index structures have been proposed over the last two decades, and little consensus has emerged regarding their relative e ectiveness. In order to empir...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Lisa Hellerstein, George Ko...
Materializing results from complex aggregation queries helps to significantly improve response times in OLAP servers. This problem is known as the view selection problem: choosing ...