We propose query optimization techniques that fully utilize the advantages of path indexes in object-oriented database systems. Although path indexes provide an eecient access to complex objects, little research has been done on query optimization that fully utilize path indexes. We rst devise a generalized index intersection technique, adapted to the structure of the path index extended from c...

Environmental issues have become increasingly important in economic research and policy for sustainable development. Such issues are tracked by the Dow Jones Sustainable Indexes (DJSI) through financial market indexes that are derived from the Dow Jones Global Indexes. The environmental sustainability activities of firms are assessed using criteria in three areas, namely economic, environmental...

The Banzhaf power index was introduced in cooperative game theory to measure the real power of players in a game. The Banzhaf interaction index was then proposed to measure the interaction degree inside coalitions of players. It was shown that the power and interaction indexes can be obtained as solutions of a standard least squares approximation problem for pseudo-Boolean functions. Considerin...

The queries defined on data warehouses are complex and use several join operations that induce an expensive computational cost. This cost becomes even more prohibitive when queries access very large volumes of data. To improve response time, data warehouse administrators generally use indexing techniques such as star join indexes or bitmap join indexes. This task is nevertheless complex and fas...

Breeding objectives for beef cattle in Ireland were derived and used to define selection sub-indexes. The intention of the sub-indexes was to simplify selection decisions by commercial bull and semen buyers for situations where all of the resulting progeny are slaughtered, or when some female progeny are kept as replacement breeding cows. Separate sets of economic values for calving ease and ge...

In this paper we propose a new family of cumulative indexes for measuring scientific performance which can be applied to many metrics, including h index and its variants (here we apply it to the h index, h(2) index and Google Scholar's i10 index). These indexes follow the general principle of repeating the index calculation for the same publication set. Using bibliometric data and reviewer scor...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of our study was to assess the correlation between the intensity and characteristics of contrast enhancement on angiographically assisted CT and the intensity of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and in the surrounding nontumorous liver. MATERIALS AND METHODS The intensity of VEGF expression in HCC and in the surroundi...

Because choosing the most efficient query execution plan relies on indexing techniques, such techniques play an important role in developing query processors. In the Web context, they’re even more crucial, as XML documents are massively used and frequently queried. Given that XML documents are semistructured, however, general query processing techniques — such as those for relational or objecto...

Column-oriented indexes—such as projection or bitmap indexes—are compressed by run-length encoding to reduce storage and increase speed. Sorting the tables improves compression. On realistic data sets, permuting the columns in the right order before sorting can reduce the number of runs by a factor of two or more. For many cases, we prove that the number of runs in table columns is minimized if...

Advances in DNA sequencing mean that databases of thousands of human genomes will soon be commonplace. In this paper, we introduce a simple technique for reducing the size of conventional indexes on such highly repetitive texts. Given upper bounds on pattern lengths and edit distances, we pre-process the text with the lossless data compression algorithm LZ77 to obtain a filtered text, for which...