Traditional query processors generate full, accurate query results, either in batch or in pipelined fashion. We argue that this strict model is too rigid for exploratory queries o...
Over a traditional Database Management System (DBMS), the answer to an aggregate query is usually much smaller than the answer to a similar nonaggregate query. Therefore, we call ...
Experimental computer systems research typically ignores the end-user, modeling him, if at all, in overly simple ways. We argue that this (1) results in inadequate performance eva...
Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick, Bin ...
In many domains, decision makers want to find and understand patterns of events as these patterns often give insight into the causal relationships among events. Current systems to...
In manyoptimization and decision problems the objective function can be expressed as a linear combinationof competingcriteria, the weights of whichspecify the relative importanceo...