There has been considerable past work on efficiently computing top k objects by aggregating information from multiple ranked lists of these objects. An important instance of this...
Ravi Kumar, Kunal Punera, Torsten Suel, Sergei Vas...
We present a semantic caching approach for optimizing the performance of information mediators. A critical problem with information mediators, particularly those gathering and int...
Computing shortest paths between two given nodes is a fundamental operation over graphs, but known to be nontrivial over large disk-resident instances of graph data. While a numbe...
Andrey Gubichev, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Stephan Seu...
The World Wide Web Consortium's RDF standard primarily consists of (subject,property,object) triples that specify the value that a given subject has for a given property. How...
Andrea Pugliese, Octavian Udrea, V. S. Subrahmania...
Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...