A new approach to query optimization, truly adaptive optimization (TAO), is presented. TAO is a general optimization strategy and is composed of three elements:
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated quite often. Research has extensively dealt with the problem of database evo...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Yannis V...
We introduce Xeek, a method for managing XML documents using relational databases. Most previous proposals in which the XPath axes are evaluated using only the pre- and postorder n...
The paper presents a fuzzy database management system, and a fuzzy method for dominant colour description of images, on which an image retrieval system is built. The paper shows th...
Carlos D. Barranco, Juan Miguel Medina, Jesú...
Abstract. Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE) offers a logical framework to prevent a user of a database from inadvertently gaining knowledge he is not allowed to know. By modeling t...