Abstract The top-k dominating query returns k data objects which dominate the highest number of objects in a dataset. This query is an important tool for decision support since it ...
Peer data management systems (PDMS) offer a flexible architecture for decentralized data sharing. In a PDMS, every peer is associated with a schema that represents the peer's...
The informative value of biomolecular networks has shifted from being solely information resources for possible cellular partners (whether these embody proteins, (ribo)nucleic aci...
Existing work on multiway spatial joins focuses on the retrieval of all exact solutions with no time limit for query processing. Depending on the query and data properties, however...
Finding the occurrences of structural patterns in XML data is a key operation in XML query processing. Existing algorithms for this operation focus almost exclusively on path patt...