Unlike numerical preferences, preferences on attribute values do not show an inherent total order, but skyline computation has to rely on partial orderings explicitly stated by th...
Advances in data acquisition and sensor technologies are leading towards the development of “High Fan-in” architectures: widely distributed systems whose edges consist of nume...
Owen Cooper, Anil Edakkunni, Michael J. Franklin, ...
There are various techniques for simulating crowds, however, in most cases the quality of the simulation is measured by examining its “look-and-feel”. Even if the aggregate mov...
In implementations of non-standard database systems, large objects are often embedded within an aggregate of different types, i.e. a tuple. For a given size and access probabilit...
We propose a dynamic faceted search system for discoverydriven analysis on data with both textual content and structured attributes. From a keyword query, we want to dynamically s...
Debabrata Dash, Jun Rao, Nimrod Megiddo, Anastasia...