We consider the problem of efficiently finding the top-k answers for join queries over web-accessible databases. Classical algorithms for finding top-k answers use branch-and-b...
Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka "null values") is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through media...
Hemal Khatri, Jianchun Fan, Yi Chen, Subbarao Kamb...
—The increasing availability of location-aware mobile devices has given rise to a flurry of location-based services (LBS). Due to the nature of spatial queries, an LBS needs the...
Peer-to-peer Data Networks (PDNs) are large-scale, selforganizing, distributed query processing systems. Familiar examples of PDN are peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, which su...
With the increasing occurrence of temporal and spatial data in present-day database applications, the interval data type is adopted by more and more database systems. For an effic...