Data mining can extract important knowledge from large data collections - but sometimes these collections are split among various parties. Privacy concerns may prevent the parties...
As data of an unprecedented scale are becoming accessible, skyline queries have been actively studied lately, to retrieve “interesting” data objects that are not dominated by a...
To take full advantage of the parallelism offered by a multicore machine, one must write parallel code. Writing parallel code is difficult. Even when one writes correct code, the...
John Cieslewicz, Kenneth A. Ross, Kyoho Satsumi, Y...
One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
The application of resource-defined fitness sharing (RFS) to shape nesting problems reveals a remarkable ability to discover tilings [7, 8]. These tilings represent exact covers...