We present a simple but powerful algorithm for optimizing the usage of hardware occlusion queries in arbitrary complex scenes. Our method minimizes the number of issued queries an...
Star queries are the most prevalent kind of queries in data warehousing, OLAP and business intelligence applications. Thus, there is an imperative need for efficiently processing ...
Nikos Karayannidis, Aris Tsois, Timos K. Sellis, R...
Past work has suggested that query execution feedback can be useful in improving the quality of plans by correcting cardinality estimation errors in the query optimizer. The state...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek R. Narasayya, Ravishankar...
The integration of database and programming languages is made difficult by the different data models and type systems prevalent in each field. Functional-object query languages con...
Abstract. Grids reliability remains an order of magnitude below clusters on production infrastructures. This work is aimsed at improving grid application performances by improving ...
Diane Lingrand, Johan Montagnat, Janusz Martyniak,...