There has been interest recently in skyline queries, also called Pareto queries, on relational databases. Relational query languages do not support search for "best" tupl...
Jan Chomicki, Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Dongming ...
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
Mobile is becoming a ubiquitous platform for context-aware intelligent computing. One fundamental but usually ignored issue is how to efficiently manage (e.g., index and query) the...
Yuan Zhang, Ning Zhang, Jie Tang, Jinghai Rao, Wen...
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
The paper presents Spatial Distributions Server – an analytical tool aimed at efficient creation, storing and analyzing of spatial distributions. Methods of approximation of spat...