Indatawarehousingapplications,numerousOLAP queries involve the processing of holistic aggregators such as computing the "top n," median, quantiles, etc. In this paper, we...
High-quality annotation of biological data is central to bioinformatics. Annotation using terms from ontologies provides reliable computational access to data. The Gene Ontology (...
Michael Bada, Daniele Turi, Robin McEntire, Robert...
Mobile users today demand ubiquitous access to their data from any mobile device and under variable connection quality. We refer to this requirement as any-time, any-where data ac...
We define a framework for static optimization of sliding window conjunctive queries over infinite streams. When computational resources are sufficient, we propose that the goal of...
Block-level sampling is far more efficient than true uniform-random sampling over a large database, but prone to significant errors if used to create database statistics. In this ...