Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
The generalized hypertree width GHW(H) of a hypergraph H is a measure of its cyclicity. Classes of conjunctive queries or constraint satisfaction problems whose associated hypergr...
Abstract. The success of Internet applications has led to an explosive growth in the demand for bandwidth from ISPs. Managing an IP network requires collecting and analyzing networ...
The development of complex systems invariably involves many stakeholders who have different perspectives on the problem they are addressing, the system being developed, and the pr...
Abstract-- Despite the best intentions of disk and RAID manufacturers, on-disk data can still become corrupted. In this paper, we examine the effects of corruption on database mana...