Recent advances in research fields like multimedia and bioinformatics have brought about a new generation of hyper-dimensional databases which can contain hundreds or even thousan...
Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, Anthony...
Many data-driven social and Web applications involve collaboration and coordination. The vision of declarative data-driven coordination (D3C), proposed in [9], is to support coord...
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
Abstract— Distributed stream-based applications, such as continuous query systems, have network scale and time characteristics that challenge traditional distributed query optimi...
Jeffrey Shneidman, Peter R. Pietzuch, Matt Welsh, ...
Exploratory ad-hoc queries could return too many answers ? a phenomenon commonly referred to as "information overload". In this paper, we propose to automatically catego...