The skyline operator was first proposed in 2001 for retrieving interesting tuples from a dataset. Since then, 100+ skyline-related papers have been published; however, we discove...
Lexical chaining is a technique for identifying semanticallyrelated terms in text. We propose concept chaining to link semantically-related concepts within biomedical text togethe...
There is an increasing need to integrate spatial index structures into commercial database management systems. In geographic information systems (GIS), huge amounts of information ...
Can we use social networks to combat spam? This paper investigates the feasibility of MailRank, a new email ranking and classification scheme exploiting the social communication ...
The DWS (Data Warehouse Striping) technique is a data partitioning approach especially designed for distributed data warehousing environments. In DWS the fact tables are distribute...
Raquel Almeida, Jorge Vieira, Marco Vieira, Henriq...