Classical problems of sorting and searching assume an underlying linear ordering of the objects being compared. In this paper, we study a more general setting, in which some pairs...
Constantinos Daskalakis, Richard M. Karp, Elchanan...
Set-valued attributes frequently occur in contexts like marketbasked analysis and stock market trends. Late research literature has mainly focused on set containment joins and dat...
Geographic information systems (GIS) must support large georeferenced data sets. Due to the size of these data sets finding exact answers to spatial queries can be very time consum...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Scott T. Leutenegger
Recently several important relational database tasks such as index selection, histogram tuning, approximate query processing, and statistics selection have recognized the importan...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Vivek R. Na...
We show that the problem of optimal bit allocation among a set of independent discrete quantizers given a budget constraint is equivalent to the multiple choice knapsack problem (...