Decision support systems (DSS) may be enhanced qualitatively if they are able to also deal with spatial dimensions and measures. Regardless the evident importance of using data wa...
Marcus Costa Sampaio, Andre Gomes de Sousa, Cl&aac...
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
Several recent papers have focused on OLAP over imprecise data, where each fact can be a region, instead of a point, in a multidimensional space. They have provided a multiple-wor...
Douglas Burdick, AnHai Doan, Raghu Ramakrishnan, S...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
Querying any information system requires the knowledge of some formal language, making it inaccessible to computer-na?ve potential users. We propose a new intuitive querying mecha...