Personalized database systems give users answers tailored to their personal preferences. While numerous preference evaluation methods for databases have been proposed (e.g., skylin...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
Approximate query processing has emerged as a costeffective approach for dealing with the huge data volumes and stringent response-time requirements of today's decision-suppo...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Minos N. Garofalakis, Rajeev ...
Spatial queries for extracting data from wireless sensor networks are important for many applications, such as environmental monitoring and military surveillance. One such query i...
The ability to compute top-k matches to XML queries is gaining importance due to the increasing number of large XML repositories. The efficiency of top-k query evaluation relies o...
— We consider how to support a large number of users over a wide-area network whose interests are characterized by range top-k continuous queries. Given an object update, we need...