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...
Soon, much of the data exchanged over the Internet will be encoded in XML, allowing for sophisticated filtering and content-based routing. We have built a filtering engine called ...
Yanlei Diao, Peter M. Fischer, Michael J. Franklin...
The effective grouping, or partitioning, of semistructured data is of fundamental importance when providing support for queries. Partitions allow items within the data set that sh...
John N. Wilson, Richard Gourlay, Robert Japp, Math...
A key advantage of scientific workflow systems over traditional scripting approaches is their ability to automatically record data and process dependencies introduced during workf...
The need to search for complex and recurring patterns in database sequences is shared by many applications. In this paper, we discuss how to express and support efficiently sophis...
Reza Sadri, Carlo Zaniolo, Amir M. Zarkesh, Jafar ...