Unlike numerical preferences, preferences on attribute values do not show an inherent total order, but skyline computation has to rely on partial orderings explicitly stated by th...
Advances in data acquisition and sensor technologies are leading towards the development of “High Fan-in” architectures: widely distributed systems whose edges consist of nume...
Owen Cooper, Anil Edakkunni, Michael J. Franklin, ...
There are various techniques for simulating crowds, however, in most cases the quality of the simulation is measured by examining its “look-and-feel”. Even if the aggregate mov...
We investigate the problem of using materialized views to answer SQL queries. We focus on modern decision-support queries, which involve joins, arithmetic operations and other (po...
Markos Zaharioudakis, Roberta Cochrane, George Lap...