In the rank join problem we are given a relational join R1 1 R2 and a function that assigns numeric scores to the join tuples, and the goal is to return the tuples with the highes...
Conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) have recently been proposed as extensions of classical functional dependencies that apply to a certain subset of the relation, as specif...
Graham Cormode, Lukasz Golab, Flip Korn, Andrew Mc...
The concept of dominance has recently attracted much interest in the context of skyline computation. Given an Ndimensional data set S, a point p is said to dominate q if p is bett...
Cuiping Li, Beng Chin Ooi, Anthony K. H. Tung, Sha...
Exact computation for aggregate queries usually requires large amounts of memory ? constrained in data-streaming ? or communication ? constrained in distributed computation ? and ...
In this paper we study the use of vehicles as sensors in a "vehicular sensor network," a new network paradigm that is critical for gathering valuable information in urba...
Uichin Lee, Eugenio Magistretti, Biao Zhou, Mario ...