The problem of frequently updating multi-dimensional indexes arises in many location-dependent applications. While the R-tree and its variants are one of the dominant choices for ...
Most data integration applications require a matching between the schemas of the respective data sets. We show how the existence of duplicates within these data sets can be exploi...
Rapid growth in the amount of data available on social networking sites has made information retrieval increasingly challenging for users. In this paper, we propose a collaborativ...
One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...
We present the application of customized code generation to database query evaluation. The idea is to use a collection of highly efficient code templates and dynamically instantiat...