Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
Monitoring is an issue of primary concern in current and next generation networked systems. For example, the objective of sensor networks is to monitor their surroundings for a va...
Ram Keralapura, Graham Cormode, Jeyashankher Ramam...
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
The skyline of a set of d-dimensional points contains the points that are not dominated by any other point on all dimensions. Skyline computation has recently received considerabl...
Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Greg Fu, Bernhard Se...