In applications such as vision and molecular biology, a common problem is to find the similar objects to a given target (according to some distance measure) in a large database. T...
We present a novel design and implementation of relational join algorithms for new-generation graphics processing units (GPUs). The most recent GPU features include support for wr...
Bingsheng He, Ke Yang, Rui Fang, Mian Lu, Naga K. ...
In today’s global village, it is critical that the key information tools, such as web search engines, e-Commerce portals and e-Governance, work across multiple natural languages,...
Intervals represent a fundamental data type for temporal, scientific, and spatial databases where time stamps and point data are extended to time spans and range data, respectively...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...