Traditional similarity or distance measurements usually become meaningless when the dimensions of the datasets increase, which has detrimental effects on clustering performance. I...
We introduce the notion of a data topology and the problem of topology search over databases. A data topology summarizes the set of all possible relationships that connect a given...
In location-based services, it is common for a user to issue a query based on his/her current position. One such example is "find the available cabs within two miles of my cu...
A conventional materialized view blindly materializes and maintains all rows of a view, even rows that are never accessed. We propose a more flexible materialization strategy aime...
Jingren Zhou, Jonathan Goldstein, Luping Ding, Per...
Tuple dropping, though commonly used for load shedding in most stream operations, is inadequate for m-way, windowed stream joins. The join output rate can be overly reduced becaus...