The processing of k-NN queries has been studied extensively both in a centralized computing environment and in a structured P2P environment. However, the problem over an unstructur...
Bin Wang, Xiaochun Yang, Guoren Wang, Lei Chen 000...
When querying a temporal database, a user often makes certain semantic assumptions on stored temporal data. This paper formalizes and studies two types of semantic assumptions: po...
Claudio Bettini, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Elisa Bertino...
Several web applications (such as processing RSS feeds or web service messages) rely on XPath-based data manipulation tools. Web developers need to use XPath queries effectively o...
Data exchange, also known as data translation, has been extensively investigated in recent years. One main direction of research has focused on the semantics and the complexity of...
A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k q...
Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nick Koudas, Niko...