adaptive query processing

 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~amol/talks/VLDB07-AQP-Tutorial.pdf

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~zives/research/aqp-survey.pdf

http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/sigmod00-eddy.pdf

https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2008/cmsc724/aqp-724.ppt

Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland Zachary G. Ives, University of Pennsylvania Vijayshankar Raman, IBM Almaden Research Center

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/10381_abstracts_collection.2984.pdf

http://www.queryprocessor.com/category/adaptive-query-processing/