Recently, the C# and the VISUAL BASIC communities were tantalized by the advent of LINQ [18]--the Language INtegrated Query technology from Microsoft. LINQ represents a set of lan...
The problem of skyline computation has attracted considerable research attention. In the categorical domain the problem becomes more complicated, primarily due to the partially-or...
Nikos Sarkas, Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Anthony K. ...
aAQUA is an online multilingual, multimedia Agricultural portal for disseminating information from and to rural communities. It answers farmers' queries based on the location...
Spatial database operations are typically performed in two steps. In the filtering step, indexes and the minimum bounding rectangles (MBRs) of the objects are used to quickly dete...
In the rank join problem, we are given a set of relations and a scoring function, and the goal is to return the join results with the top K scores. It is often the case in practic...