Capabilities Aware Planner/Optimizer/Executioner for COntext INterchange Project
DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Published 1 January 2002Open access
Tarik Alatovic
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Novel approaches to three important query answering issues are presented: handling data sources with varying processing capabilities, optimizing queries in distributed environments where costs statistics are not readily available, and integrating with non-relational data sources.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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