Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
XML path queries form the basis of complex filtering of XML data. Most current XML path query processing techniques can be divided in two groups. Navigation-based algorithms compu...
Nicolas Bruno, Luis Gravano, Nick Koudas, Divesh S...
— Multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) is crucial in many business and web applications such as web searches, B2B portals and on-line commerce. Such MCDS applications need to r...
We study the problem of generating synthetic databases having declaratively specified characteristics. This problem is motivated by database system and application testing, data ...
The primary goal of data stream research is to develop space and time efficient solutions for answering continuous online summarization queries. Research efforts over the last dec...
Nagender Bandi, Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal,...