Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
In this paper we propose a new declustering method which is particularly suitable for image and cartographic databases used for visualization. Our declustering method is based on ...
We consider Presburger arithmetic extended by infinity. For this we give an effective quantifier elimination and decision procedure which implies also the completeness of our exten...
Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of the wavelet decomposition in reducing large amounts of data to compact sets of wavelet coefficients (termed "wavelet synopse...
Abstract. With more and more electronic information sources becoming widely available, the issue of the quality of these often-competing sources has become germane. We propose a st...