Query-by-example is the most popular query model for today’s image retrieval systems. A typical query image contains not only relevant objects (e.g., Eiffel Tower), but also ir...
While the task of answering queries from an arbitrary propositional theory is intractable in general, it can typicallybe performed e ciently if the theory is Horn. This suggests t...
Efficient processing of aggregation queries is essential for decision support applications. This paper describes a class of query transformations, called eager aggregation and lat...
An important issue arising from XML query relaxation is how to efficiently search the top-k best answers from a large number of XML data sources, while minimizing the searching cos...
The increasing volume of data stored as XML documents makes fragmentation techniques an alternative to the performance issues in query processing. Fragmented databases are feasible...
Guilherme Figueiredo, Vanessa P. Braganholo, Marta...