Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
—This paper presents IQP - a novel approach to bridge the gap between usability of keyword search and expressiveness of database queries. IQP enables a user to start with an arbi...
BPQL is a novel query language for querying business process specifications, introduced recently in [5, 6]. It is based on an intuitive business processes as rewriting systems, an...
Among the open problems in P2P systems, support for non-trivial search predicates, standardized query languages, distributed query processing, query load balancing, and quality of...
Anwitaman Datta, Manfred Hauswirth, Renault John, ...