• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
• /
• v.2 no.4
• /
• pp.443-452
• /
• 1995

Object-oriented database systems have been proposed as an effective solution for providing the data management facilities of complex applications. Proving this claim and the investigation of related issues such as query processing have been hampered by the absence of a formal object-oriented query model. In this paper, we not only define a query model based on aggregation inheritance but also develop semantic rewriting rules which are applied to equivalence preserving rewrite rules in algebraic expression of a query. Analyzing semantically the query model, the query model can be optimized to logically object-oriented query processing. And algebra expresstions of a query can be optimized by applying equivalence preserving rewrite rules.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
• /
• v.10D no.4
• /
• pp.661-670
• /
• 2003

Materialized views which are stored views of the database offer opportunities for significant performance gain in query valuation by providing fast access to pre-computed data. The question of when and how to use a materialized view in processing a given query is a difficult one attracting a significant amount of research. Whether a materialized view can be used in answering a query depends on the relationship between the view and the query. Proposed in this paper are new ways of utilizing materialized views in answering a query. Semantic relationships are used in addition to syntactic ones. We also utilize a materialized view in answering a query even if it has relations unrelated to the query. We first show the conditions for testing whether a materialized view can be utilized in answering a query and then present the algorithms for testing the conditions and reformulating a query with a materialized view.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
• /
• v.11D no.2
• /
• pp.293-304
• /
• 2004

Recently, caching for the database-backed web applications has received much attention. The results of frequent queries could be cached for repeated reuse or for efficient processing of the relevant queries. Since the emergence of XML as a standard for data exchange on the web, today's web applications are to retrieve information from the remote XML sources across the network, and thus it is desirable to maintain the XML query results in the cache for the web applications. In this paper, we describe implementation of an XML query processing system that supports cache-answerability of XML queries, and evaluate its performance. XML path expression, which is one of the core features of XML query languages including XQuery, XPath, and XQL was considered as the XML query. Their result is maintained as an XML materialized view in the XML cache. The algorithms to rewrite the given XML path expression using its relevant materialized view proposed in [13] were implemented with RDBMS as XML store. The major issues of implementation are described in detail. The results of performance experiments conducted with the implemented system showed effectiveness of cache-answerability of XML queries. Comparison with previous research in terms of performance is also Provided.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
• /
• v.11 no.3
• /
• pp.35-51
• /
• 2006

Information visualization plays an important role to provide a conceptual comprehension of the information and should be adjusted and featured to reflect the characteristics of the domain to which it is applied. Product searching in e-Commerce is not an exception. In this paper, we present visualization techniques that are specified for effectively browsing the results of product searching. We considered visualization techniques including MapNet and Cluster Map and modified them to reflect the characteristics of the product domain. We consider two types of search queries: category searching and product property searching, and make it possible to include more detailed product semantics in their search criteria. We also provide a query refinement mechanism so that even users with rack of understanding the products may rewrite their queries for better results.