Abstract. Physical database design tools rely on a DBA-provided workload to pick an "optimal" set of indexes and materialized views. Such an approach fails to capture sce...
Nearest neighbor (NN) queries have been extended from Euclidean spaces to road networks. Existing approaches are either based on Dijkstra-like network expansion or NN/distance prec...
Connections is a file system search tool that combines traditional content-based search with context information gathered from user activity. By tracing file system calls, Conne...
All pairs similarity search is the problem of finding all pairs of records that have a similarity score above the specified threshold. Many real-world systems like search engine...
Search engines use inverted files as index data structures to speed up the solution of user queries. The index is distributed on a set of processors forming a cluster of computer...