Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Probabilistic databases have received considerable attention recently due to the need for storing uncertain data produced by many real world applications. The widespread use of pr...
Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...
Real-scale Semantic Web applications, such as Knowledge Portals and E-Marketplaces, require the managementof large volumes of metadata, i.e., information describing the available ...
Gregory Karvounarakis, Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Chr...
Several variations of nearest neighbor (NN) query have been investigated by the database community. However, realworld applications often result in the formulation of new variatio...
Mehdi Sharifzadeh, Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan, Cyrus ...