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Tolga Urhan , Michael J. Franklin , Laurent Amsaleg, Cost-based query scrambling for initial delays, Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, p.130-141, June 01-04, 1998, Seattle, Washington, United States

Francis Chu , Joseph Halpern , Johannes Gehrke, Least expected cost query optimization: what can we expect?, Proceedings of the twenty-first ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems, June 03-05, 2002, Madison, Wisconsin

Nicolas Bruno , Surajit Chaudhuri, Exploiting statistics on query expressions for optimization, Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 03-06, 2002, Madison, Wisconsin

Sam S. Lightstone , Guy Lohman , Danny Zilio, Toward autonomic computing with DB2 universal database, ACM SIGMOD Record, v.31 n.3, September 2002

Frederick R. Reiss , Tapas Kanungo, A characterization of the sensitivity of query optimization to storage access cost parameters, Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 09-12, 2003, San Diego, California

Ihab F. Ilyas , Volker Markl , Peter Haas , Paul Brown , Ashraf Aboulnaga, CORDS: automatic discovery of correlations and soft functional dependencies, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 13-18, 2004, Paris, France

V. Markl , N. Megiddo , M. Kutsch , T. M. Tran , P. Haas , U. Srivastava, Consistently estimating the selectivity of conjuncts of predicates, Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases, August 30-September 02, 2005, Trondheim, Norway

Surajit Chaudhuri , Vivek Narasayya , Ravishankar Ramamurthy, Estimating progress of execution for SQL queries, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 13-18, 2004, Paris, France

Volker Markl , Vijayshankar Raman , David Simmen , Guy Lohman , Hamid Pirahesh , Miso Cilimdzic, Robust query processing through progressive optimization, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 13-18, 2004, Paris, France

Gang Luo , Jeffrey F. Naughton , Curt J. Ellmann , Michael W. Watzke, Toward a progress indicator for database queries, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 13-18, 2004, Paris, France

Zachary G. Ives , Alon Y. Halevy , Daniel S. Weld, Adapting to source properties in processing data integration queries, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 13-18, 2004, Paris, France

V. Markl , G. M. Lohman , V. Raman, LEO: An autonomic query optimizer for DB2, IBM Systems Journal, v.42 n.1, p.98-106, January 2003

Nicolas Bruno , Surajit Chaudhuri, Conditional selectivity for statistics on query expressions, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 13-18, 2004, Paris, France

Shivnath Babu , Rajeev Motwani , Kamesh Munagala , Itaru Nishizawa , Jennifer Widom, Adaptive ordering of pipelined stream filters, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 13-18, 2004, Paris, France

Anastasios Gounaris , Norman W. Paton , Alvaro A. A. Fernandes , Rizos Sakellariou, Self-monitoring query execution for adaptive query processing, Data & Knowledge Engineering, v.51 n.3, p.325-348, December 2004

Shimin Chen , Anastassia Ailamaki , Phillip B. Gibbons , Todd C. Mowry, Inspector joins, Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases, August 30-September 02, 2005, Trondheim, Norway

Ning Zhang , Peter J. Haas , Vanja Josifovski , Guy M. Lohman , Chun Zhang, Statistical learning techniques for costing XML queries, Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases, August 30-September 02, 2005, Trondheim, Norway

Naveen Reddy , Jayant R. Haritsa, Analyzing plan diagrams of database query optimizers, Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases, August 30-September 02, 2005, Trondheim, Norway

P. Haas , M. Kandil , A. Lerner , V. Markl , I. Popivanov , V. Raman , D. Zilio, Automated statistics collection in action, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 14-16, 2005, Baltimore, Maryland

Pedro Bizarro , Shivnath Babu , David DeWitt , Jennifer Widom, Content-based routing: different plans for different data, Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases, August 30-September 02, 2005, Trondheim, Norway

Zhen He , Byung Suk Lee , Robert Snapp, Self-tuning cost modeling of user-defined functions in an object-relational DBMS, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), v.30 n.3, p.812-853, September 2005

Themis Palpanas , Nick Koudas , Alberto Mendelzon, Using Datacube Aggregates for Approximate Querying and Deviation Detection, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, v.17 n.11, p.1465-1477, November 2005

Surajit Chaudhuri , Ashish Kumar Gupta , Vivek Narasayya, Compressing SQL workloads, Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 03-06, 2002, Madison, Wisconsin

Ihab F. Ilyas , Walid G. Aref , Ahmed K. Elmagarmid , Hicham G. Elmongui , Rahul Shah , Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Adaptive rank-aware query optimization in relational databases, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), v.31 n.4, p.1257-1304, December 2006

Tanu Malik , Randal Burns , Nitesh V. Chawla , Alex Szalay, Data management and query---Estimating query result sizes for proxy caching in scientific database federations, Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, November 11-17, 2006, Tampa, Florida

Yannis Sismanis , Paul Brown , Peter J. Haas , Berthold Reinwald, GORDIAN: efficient and scalable discovery of composite keys, Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Very large data bases, September 12-15, 2006, Seoul, Korea

Holger Kache , Wook-Shin Han , Volker Markl , Vijayshankar Raman , Stephan Ewen, POP/FED: progressive query optimization for federated queries in DB2, Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Very large data bases, September 12-15, 2006, Seoul, Korea

Harish D , Pooja N. Darera , Jayant R. Haritsa, On the production of anorexic plan diagrams, Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Very large data bases, September 23-27, 2007, Vienna, Austria

Yannis Ioannidis, The history of histograms (abridged), Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases, p.19-30, September 09-12, 2003, Berlin, Germany

Paul G. Brown , Peter J. Hass, BHUNT: automatic discovery of Fuzzy algebraic constraints in relational data, Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases, p.668-679, September 09-12, 2003, Berlin, Germany

Lipyeow Lim , Min Wang , Jeffrey Scott Vitter, SASH: a self-adaptive histogram set for dynamically changing workloads, Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases, p.369-380, September 09-12, 2003, Berlin, Germany

Benoit Dageville , Dinesh Das , Karl Dias , Khaled Yagoub , Mohamed Zait , Mohamed Ziauddin, Automatic SQL tuning in oracle 10g, Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases, p.1098-1109, August 31-September 03, 2004, Toronto, Canada

A. Aboulnaga , P. Haas , M. Kandil , S. Lightstone , G. Lohman , V. Markl , I. Popivanov , V. Raman, Automated statistics collection in DB2 UDB, Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases, p.1158-1169, August 31-September 03, 2004, Toronto, Canada

Surajit Chaudhuri , Prasanna Ganesan , Vivek Narasayya, Primitives for workload summarization and implications for SQL, Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases, p.730-741, September 09-12, 2003, Berlin, Germany

Gerhard Weikum , Axel Moenkeberg , Christof Hasse , Peter Zabback, Self-tuning database technology and information services: from wishful thinking to viable engineering, Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases, p.20-31, August 20-23, 2002, Hong Kong, China

Guy M. Lohman , Sam S. Lightstone, SMART: making DB2 (more) autonomic, Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases, p.877-879, August 20-23, 2002, Hong Kong, China

Ashit Gosalia , Xin (Shin) Zhang, Automatic plan choice validation using performance statistics, Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Testing database systems, June 13-13, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Amol Deshpande , Zachary Ives , Vijayshankar Raman, Adaptive query processing, Foundations and Trends in Databases, v.1 n.1, p.1-140, January 2007

V. Markl , P. J. Haas , M. Kutsch , N. Megiddo , U. Srivastava , T. M. Tran, Consistent selectivity estimation via maximum entropy, The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, v.16 n.1, p.55-76, January 2007

Bingsheng He , Qiong Luo , Byron Choi, Adaptive Index Utilization in Memory-Resident Structural Joins, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, v.19 n.6, p.772-788, June 2007

Eric Anderson , Michael Hobbs , Kimberly Keeton , Susan Spence , Mustafa Uysal , Alistair Veitch, Hippodrome: Running Circles Around Storage Administration, Proceedings of the 1st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, January 28-30, 2002, Monterey, CA

Surajit Chaudhuri , Vivek Narasayya, Self-tuning database systems: a decade of progress, Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Very large data bases, September 23-27, 2007, Vienna, Austria

Umeshwar Dayal , Harumi Kuno , Janet L. Wiener , Kevin Wilkinson , Archana Ganapathi , Stefan Krompass, Managing operational business intelligence workloads, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, v.43 n.1, January 2009

Kareem El Gebaly , Ashraf Aboulnaga, Robustness in automatic physical database design, Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Extending database technology: Advances in database technology, March 25-29, 2008, Nantes, France

Peter J. Haas , Fabian Hueske , Volker Markl, Detecting attribute dependencies from query feedback, Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Very large data bases, September 23-27, 2007, Vienna, Austria

Zhen He , Byung Suk Lee , X. Sean Wang, Proactive and reactive multi-dimensional histogram maintenance for selectivity estimation, Journal of Systems and Software, v.81 n.3, p.414-430, March, 2008

Said Elnaffar , Pat Martin , Berni Schiefer , Sam Lightstone, Is it DSS or OLTP: automatically identifying DBMS workloads, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, v.30 n.3, p.249-271, June 2008

Harish D. , Pooja N. Darera , Jayant R. Haritsa, Identifying robust plans through plan diagram reduction, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, v.1 n.1, August 2008

Mohamed Ziauddin , Dinesh Das , Hong Su , Yali Zhu , Khaled Yagoub, Optimizer plan change management: improved stability and performance in Oracle 11g, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, v.1 n.2, August 2008

Allison W. Lee , Mohamed Zait, Closing the query processing loop in Oracle 11g, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, v.1 n.2, August 2008

Surajit Chaudhuri , Vivek Narasayya , Ravi Ramamurthy, A pay-as-you-go framework for query execution feedback, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, v.1 n.1, August 2008

Chaitanya Mishra , Nick Koudas, The design of a query monitoring system, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), v.34 n.1, p.1-51, April 2009

Rimma V. Nehme , Elke A. Rundensteiner , Elisa Bertino, Self-tuning query mesh for adaptive multi-route query processing, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology, March 24-26, 2009, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Said Elnaffar , Patrick Martin, The Psychic-Skeptic Prediction framework for effective monitoring of DBMS workloads, Data & Knowledge Engineering, v.68 n.4, p.393-414, April, 2009

Herodotos Herodotou , Shivnath Babu, Automated SQL tuning through trial and (sometimes) error, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Testing Database Systems, June 29-29, 2009, Providence, Rhode Island

Surajit Chaudhuri, Query optimizers: time to rethink the contract?, Proceedings of the 35th SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, June 29-July 02, 2009, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Michael Stillger: colleagues

Guy M. Lohman: colleagues

Volker Markl: colleagues

Mokhtar Kandil: colleagues