The need to improve a suboptimal execution plan picked by the query optimizer for a repeatedly run SQL query arises routinely. Complex expressions, skewed or correlated data, and ...
Queries navigate semistructured data via path expressions, and can be accelerated using an index. Our solution encodes paths as strings, and inserts those strings into a special i...
Brian F. Cooper, Neal Sample, Michael J. Franklin,...
This paper describes a decision tree model and 3dimensional representation of information retrieved from various weblogs in relation to argumentative logics. The weblogs are consi...
Genomic IR, characterized by its highly specific information need, severe synonym and polysemy problem, long term name and rapid growing literature size, is challenging IR communit...
Abstract. In this paper we propose a new approach to XML benchmarking – a flexible XML query benchmark called FlexBench. The flexibility is given by two aspects. Firstly, FlexB...