Data warehouses are of crucial importance to decision-making in competitive organizations. The fact that they store enormous quantities of data is a challenge in what concerns per...
A Data Warehouse DW can be abstractly seen as a set of materialized views de ned over a set of remote data sources. A DW is intended to satisfy a set of queries. The views materi...
Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer networks such as Gnutella are attractive for certain applications because they require no centralized directories and no precise contro...
Qin Lv, Pei Cao, Edith Cohen, Kai Li, Scott Shenke...
Estimates of predicate selectivities by database query optimizers often differ significantly from those actually encountered during query execution, leading to poor plan choices a...