A plethora of data sources contain data entities that could be ordered according to a variety of attributes associated with the entities. Such orderings result effectively in a ra...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
This paper addresses a fundamental and challenging problem with broad applications: efficient processing of region-based promotion queries, i.e., to discover the top-k most inter...
The explosive growth of location-detection devices, wireless communications, and mobile databases has resulted in the realization of location-based services as commercial products...