The query optimizer of a database system is confronted with two aspects when handling user-defined functions (UDFs) in query predicates: the vast differences in evaluation costs b...
Understanding the differences between contrasting groups is a fundamental task in data analysis. This realization has led to the development of a new special purpose data mining t...
Geoffrey I. Webb, Shane M. Butler, Douglas A. Newl...
Abstract. The C++ language has only a limited runtime type information system, which doesn’t provide full reflection capabilities. We present a general mechanism to support refle...
Numerous applications such as stock market or medical information systems require that both historical and current data be logically integrated into a temporal database. The under...
Peter Muth, Patrick E. O'Neil, Achim Pick, Gerhard...
A tuple t1 of relation R subsumes tuple t2 of R, with respect to a query Q if for every database, tuple t1 derives all, and possibly more, answers to query Q than derived by tuple ...