A large number of database index structures have been proposed over the last two decades, and little consensus has emerged regarding their relative e ectiveness. In order to empir...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Lisa Hellerstein, George Ko...
Skyline query is of great importance in many applications, such as multi-criteria decision making and business planning. In particular, a skyline point is a data object in the dat...
—This paper explores the idea of knowledge-based security policies, which are used to decide whether to answer queries over secret data based on an estimation of the querier’s ...
Piotr Mardziel, Stephen Magill, Michael Hicks, Mud...
The window query model is widely used in data stream management systems where the focus of a continuous query is limited to a set of the most recent tuples. In this dissertation, ...
Abstract. In this paper we consider databases representing information about moving objects (e.g. vehicles), particularly their location. We address the problems of updating and qu...
Ouri Wolfson, Liqin Jiang, A. Prasad Sistla, Sam C...