The emerging interests in spatial pattern mining lead to the demand for a flexible spatial pattern mining language, on which easy to use and understand visual pattern language cou...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
Probabilistic data is coming as a new deluge along with the technical advances on geographical tracking, multimedia processing, sensor network and RFID. While similarity search is...
Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...
During the last decade, all commercial database systems have included features for parallel processing into their products. This development has been driven by the fact that datab...