A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k q...
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In a mobile computing system, users carrying portable devices can access database services from any location without requiring a fixed position in the networking environment. Some ...
Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities. A critical problem in a crisis situation is how t...
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Monitoring predefined patterns in streaming time series is useful to applications such as trend-related analysis, sensor networks and video surveillance. Most current studies on s...
Yueguo Chen, Mario A. Nascimento, Beng Chin Ooi, A...
The Web is becoming a universal information dissemination medium, due to a number of factors including its support for content dynamicity. A growing number of Web information prov...
Sandeep Pandey, Kedar Dhamdhere, Christopher Olsto...