When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
Numerous widely publicized cases of theft and misuse of private information underscore the need for audit technology to identify the sources of unauthorized disclosure. We present...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Jerry Ki...
Group nearest neighbor (GNN) queries are a relatively new type of operations in spatial database applications. Different from a traditional kNN query which specifies a single quer...
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 ...