Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
Recently, the Web has been rapidly "deepened" by many searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query forms. For modelling and integrating Web databases,...
Dynamic plan migration is concerned with the on-the-fly transition from one continuous query plan to a semantically equivalent yet more efficient plan. Migration is important for ...
Yali Zhu, Elke A. Rundensteiner, George T. Heinema...
Managing a combined store consisting of database data and file data in a robust and consistent manner is a challenge for database systems and content management systems. In such a...
Suparna Bhattacharya, C. Mohan, Karen Brannon, Ind...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...