— Real-world databases often have extremely complex schemas. With thousands of entity types and relationships, each with a hundred or so attributes, it is extremely difficult fo...
Continuous top-k queries, which report a certain number (k) of top preferred objects from data streams, are important for a broad class of real-time applications, ranging from fi...
Di Yang, Avani Shastri, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mat...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are essential for decision support applications. Common OLAP operations include for example drill down, roll up, pivot an...
In response to a query a search engine returns a ranked list of documents. If the query is on a popular topic (i.e., it matches many documents) then the returned list is usually t...