vices provide an important abstract layer on top of heterogeneous components (hardware and software) that take part into a grid environment. In this scenario, applications, like sc...
The integration of database and programming languages is made difficult by the different data models and type systems prevalent in each field. Functional-object query languages con...
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...
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...