: The read-mostly environment of data warehousing makes it possible to use more complex indexes to speed up queries than in situations where concurrent updatesare present. The curr...
Optimizing queries that involve operations on spatial data requires estimating the selectivity and cost of these operations. In this paper, we focus on estimating the cost of spat...
The wide availability of commodity multi-core systems presents an opportunity to address the latency issues that have plaqued XML query processing. However, simply executing multi...
Many different ranking algorithms based on content and context have been used in web search engines to find pages based on a user query. Furthermore, to achieve better performance ...
Semistructured graph-based databases have been proposed as well-suited stores for World-Wide Web data. Yet so far, languages for querying such data are too complex for casual Web ...