Searching and mining large graphs today is critical to a variety of application domains, ranging from personalized recommendation in social networks, to searches for functional ass...
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
— Similarity joins have attracted significant interest, with applications in Geographical Information Systems, astronomy, marketing analyzes, and anomaly detection. However, all...
Brent Bryan, Frederick Eberhardt, Christos Falouts...
Text data in the Internet can be partitioned into many databases naturally. Efficient retrieval of desired data can be achieved if we can accurately predict the usefulness of each...
Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Clement T. Yu, Xiaodong ...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...