To handle the overwhelming amount of information currently available, personalization systems allow users to specify the information that interests them through preferences. Most ...
The ability to efficiently discover information using partial knowledge (for example keywords, attributes or ranges) is important in large, decentralized, resource sharing distri...
Needs-based analysis lies at the intersection of product marketing and new product development. It is the study of why consumers purchase and what they do with those purchases. In...
Although there has been a considerable body of work on skyline evaluation in multidimensional data with totally ordered attribute domains, there are only a few methods that consid...
Shiming Zhang, Nikos Mamoulis, Ben Kao, David Wai-...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...