The need to improve a suboptimal execution plan picked by the query optimizer for a repeatedly run SQL query arises routinely. Complex expressions, skewed or correlated data, and ...
The multimedia information retrieval community has dedicated extensive research effort to the problem of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However, these systems find their ma...
Tom Yeh, Brandyn White, Jose San Pedro, Boris Katz...
Top-k queries are widely applied for retrieving a ranked set of the k most interesting objects based on the individual user preferences. As an example, in online marketplaces, cus...
— Uncertainties in data arise for a number of reasons: when the data set is incomplete, contains conflicting information or has been deliberately perturbed or coarsened to remov...
Graham Cormode, Divesh Srivastava, Entong Shen, Ti...
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in designing algorithms for querying and analyzing streaming data (i.e., data that is seen only once in a fixed order) with only...
Alin Dobra, Minos N. Garofalakis, Johannes Gehrke,...