Rank-aware query processing has become essential for many applications that return to the user only the top-k objects based on the individual user's preferences. Top-k queries...
In this paper, we explore the problem of processing a novel type of location based queries, named the location based top-k query, which involves both of spatial and non-spatial sp...
HaRim Jung, Byung Ku Cho, Yon Dohn Chung, Ling Liu
Although keyword query enables inexperienced users to easily search XML database with no specific knowledge of complex structured query languages or XML data schemas, the ambigui...
To our best knowledge, all existing graph pattern mining algorithms can only mine either closed, maximal or the complete set of frequent subgraphs instead of graph generators whic...
Zhiping Zeng, Jianyong Wang, Jun Zhang, Lizhu Zhou
A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k q...
Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nick Koudas, Niko...