As users interact with the world and their peers through their computers, it is becoming important to archive and later search the information that they have viewed. We present De...
Oren Laadan, Ricardo A. Baratto, Dan B. Phung, Sha...
In this paper, we explore the problem of processing a novel type of location based queries, named the location based top-k query, which involves both of spatial and non-spatial sp...
HaRim Jung, Byung Ku Cho, Yon Dohn Chung, Ling Liu
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
The rapidly increasing number of XML-related applications indicates a growing need for efficient, dynamic, and native XML support in database management systems (XDBMS). So far, bo...
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...