A skyline query returns a set of objects that are not dominated by other objects. An object is said to dominate another if it is closer to the query than the latter on all factors...
Deepak P, Prasad M. Deshpande, Debapriyo Majumdar,...
Decision Support Systems (DSS) are information systems that support decision making processes. In many scenarios these systems are built on top of data managed by DBMSs and make e...
—Spatial query execution is an essential functionality of a sensor network. Redundancy within a sensor network can be exploited to reduce the communication cost incurred in execu...
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) refers to the technologies that allow users to efficiently retrieve data from the data warehouse for decision-support purposes. Data warehouses...
Anindya Datta, Debra E. VanderMeer, Krithi Ramamri...
Large web search engines have to answer thousands of queries per second with interactive response times. Due to the sizes of the data sets involved, often in the range of multiple...