As relational database management systems are applied to non-traditional domains such as scientific data management, there is an increasing need to support queries with semantics ...
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
This paper introduces a content-based information retrieval method inspired by the ideas of spreading activation models. In response to a given query, the proposed approach comput...
Sketch is a sublinear space data structure that allows one to approximately reconstruct the value associated with any given key in an input data stream. It is the basis for answer...
Given a point q, a reverse k nearest neighbor (RkNN) query retrieves all the data points that have q as one of their k nearest neighbors. Existing methods for processing such quer...