Supporting ranking queries in database systems has been a popular research topic recently. However, there is a lack of study on supporting ranking queries in data warehouses where...
Today's query processing engines do not take advantage of the multiple occurrences of a relation in a query to improve performance. Instead, each instance is treated as a dis...
Yu Cao, Gopal C. Das, Chee Yong Chan, Kian-Lee Tan
Online bibliographic databases, such as DBLP in computer science and PubMed in medical sciences, contain abundant information about research publications in different fields. Each...
Yizhou Sun, Tianyi Wu, Zhijun Yin, Hong Cheng, Jia...
Today's enterprise databases are large and complex, often relating hundreds of entities. Enabling ordinary users to query such databases and derive value from them has been o...
Sampling is a popular method of data collection when it is impossible or too costly to reach the entire population. For example, television show ratings in the United States are g...