An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
Scientific visualization applications are very dataintensive, with high demands for I/O and data management. Developers of many visualization tools hesitate to use traditional DBM...
Xiaosong Ma, Marianne Winslett, John Norris, Xiang...
This paper introduces the hash-merge join algorithm (HMJ, for short); a new non-blocking join algorithm that deals with data items from remote sources via unpredictable, slow, or ...
The indexing technique commonly used for long strings, such as genomes, is the suffix tree, which is based on a vertical (intra-path) compaction of the underlying trie structure. ...
Given two sets of points P and Q, a group nearest neighbor (GNN) query retrieves the point(s) of P with the smallest sum of distances to all points in Q. Consider, for instance, t...