Recently, due to its wide applications, (similar) subgraph search has attracted a lot of attentions from database and data mining community, such as [13, 18, 19, 5]. In [8], Ke et ...
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
The tree structure has received much interest as a versatile architecture for a large class of parallel processing applications. Spanning trees in particular are essential tools f...