@article {Spiliopoulou1996341, title = {A cost model for the estimation of query execution time in a parallel environment supporting pipeline}, journal = {Computers and Artificial Intelligence}, volume = {15}, number = {4}, year = {1996}, note = {cited By (since 1996) 3}, pages = {341-368}, abstract = {We propose a model for the estimation of query execution time in an environment supporting bushy and pipelined parallelism. We consider a parallel architecture of processors having private main memories, accessing a shared secondary storage and communicating to each other via a network. For this environment, we compute the cost of query operators when processed in isolation and when in pipeline mode. We use those formulae to incrementally compute the cost of a query execution plan from its components. Our cost model can be incorporated to any optimizer for parallel query processing that considers parallel and pipelined execution of the query operators.}, url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33747804589\&partnerID=40\&md5=e04ec1604249525ebaf3dfb111a34f12}, author = {M. Spiliopoulou and M. Hatzopoulos and Costas Vassilakis} }