As peer-to-peer (P2P) networks become more familiar to the database community, intense interest has built up in using their scalability and resilience properties to scale database...
There has been a recent surge in work in probabilistic databases, propelled in large part by the huge increase in noisy data sources -from sensor data, experimental data, data fro...
Many applications in analytical domains often have the need to "connect the dots" i.e., query about the structure of data. In bioinformatics for example, it is typical t...
—Top-k query has long been an important topic in many fields of computer science. Efficient implementation of the top-k queries is the key for information searching. With the n...
Hongbo Jiang, Jie Cheng, Dan Wang, Chonggang Wang,...