Logical constraints, (e.g., 'phone numbers in toronto can have prefixes 416, 647, 905 only'), are ubiquitous in relational databases. Traditional integrity constraints, ...
Amit Chandel, Nick Koudas, Ken Q. Pu, Divesh Sriva...
High dimensional data sets are encountered in many modern database applications. The usual approach is to construct a summary of the data set through a lossy compression technique...
The ability of fast similarity search at large scale is of great importance to many Information Retrieval (IR) applications. A promising way to accelerate similarity search is sem...
Modern database applications including computer-aided design, multimedia information systems, medical imaging, molecular biology, or geographical information systems impose new re...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...