Recently, several research efforts have addressed answering skyline queries efficiently over large datasets. However, this research lacks methods to compute these queries over un...
Mohamed E. Khalefa, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Justin J. L...
A large number of database index structures have been proposed over the last two decades, and little consensus has emerged regarding their relative e ectiveness. In order to empir...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Lisa Hellerstein, George Ko...
We study the efficient evaluation of top-k queries over data items, where the score of each item is dynamically computed by applying an item-specific function whose parameter valu...
Lin Guo, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jay...
Nowadays, increasing needs for information sharing arise due to extensive collaborations among organizations. Organizations desire to provide data access to their collaborators whi...
Fengjun Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, Anna Cinzia Squiccia...
We present SecureBlox, a declarative system that unifies a distributed query processor with a security policy framework. SecureBlox decouples security concerns from system speci...
William R. Marczak, Shan Shan Huang, Martin Braven...