Query personalization was introduced as an advanced mechanism to allow the reformulation of database queries and adapt them to the user's domain of interest and preferences. ...
Integrating geographical and multidimensional processing has been proposed in several researches in the database literature. One of the most important issues of this process is dat...
Joel da Silva, Ausberto S. Castro Vera, Anjolina G...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...
Distributed databases operating over wide-area networks such as the Internet, must deal with the unpredictable nature of the performance of communication. The response times of acc...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...