When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
In this paper, we study semistructured data and indexes preserving inclusion constraints. A semistructured datum is modelled by multi-rooted edge-labeled directed graphs. We consi...
Provenance in scientific workflows is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, recording information about the module executions used to produce a data item, as well as the parame...
Susan B. Davidson, Sanjeev Khanna, Sudeepa Roy, Ju...
Recent advances in low-power sensing devices coupled with the widespread availability of wireless ad-hoc networks have fueled the development of sensor networks. These are typical...
Amir Soheili, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos
— When a database system is extended with the skyline operator, it is important to determine the most efficient way to execute a skyline query across tables with join operations...
Wen Jin, Michael D. Morse, Jignesh M. Patel, Marti...