—Top-k query has long been an important topic in many fields of computer science. Efficient implementation of the top-k queries is the key for information searching. With the n...
Hongbo Jiang, Jie Cheng, Dan Wang, Chonggang Wang,...
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) service allows users to post short tasks (“HITs”) that other users can receive a small amount of money for completing. Common tasks on...
Adam Marcus 0002, Eugene Wu 0002, Samuel Madden, R...
Research on Moving Object Databases (MOD) has resulted in sophisticated query mechanisms for moving objects and regions. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) support a wide range of app...
Given a set of objects and a query q, a point p is
called the reverse k nearest neighbor (RkNN) of q if q is one of
the k closest objects of p. In this paper, we introduce the c...
Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Y...
A growing number of applications are built on top of search engines and issue complex structured queries. This paper contributes a customisable ranking-based processing of such qu...