Location-aware mobile users need to access, query, and visualize, geographic information in a wide variety of applications including tourism, navigation, environmental management,...
Suresh K. Lodha, Nikolai M. Faaland, Grant Wong, A...
Conventional operators for data retrieval are either based on exact matching or on total order relationship among elements. Neither of them is appropriate to manage complex data, s...
Most recommendation methods (e.g., collaborative filtering) consist of (1) a computationally intense offline phase that computes a recommender model based on users’ opinions o...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. M...
— XML is commonly supported by SQL database systems. However, existing mappings of XML to tables can only deliver satisfactory query performance for limited use cases. In this pa...
Liang Jeff Chen, Philip A. Bernstein, Peter Carlin...
This paper investigates the problem of incremental joins of multiple ranked data sets when the join condition is a list of arbitrary user-defined predicates on the input tuples. ...
Apostol Natsev, Yuan-Chi Chang, John R. Smith, Chu...