While much work has addressed the problem of maintaining materialized views, the important question of optimizing queries in the presence of materialized views has not been resolv...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravi Krishnamurthy, Spyros Pota...
The use of the Yager's OWA operators within a flexible querying interface is discussed. The key issue is the adaptation of an OWA operator to the specifics of a user's qu...
Frequent elements and top-k queries constitute an important class of queries for data stream analysis applications. Certain applications require answers for both frequent elements...
The tremendous growth of the Internet has significantly reduced the cost of obtaining and sharing information about individuals, raising many concerns about user privacy. Spatial...
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...