There are many emerging database applications that require accurate selectivity estimation of approximate string matching queries. Edit distance is one of the most commonly used s...
Uncertain data are inherent in some important applications. Although a considerable amount of research has been dedicated to modeling uncertain data and answering some types of qu...
Main memory cache performance continues to play an important role in determining the overall performance of object-oriented, object-relational and XML databases. An effective metho...
Abstract The notorious "dimensionality curse" is a wellknown phenomenon for any multi-dimensional indexes attempting to scale up to high dimensions. One well-known approa...
Improving business processes is critical to any corporation. Process improvement requires analysis as its first basic step. Process analysis has many unique challenges: i) compani...