The skyline of a d-dimensional dataset consists of all points not dominated by others. The incorporation of the skyline operator into practical database systems necessitates an ef...
Many database applications have the emerging need to support fuzzy queries that ask for strings that are similar to a given string, such as “name similar to smith” and “tele...
We present in this paper a CBIR system for use in a psychological study of the relationship between human movement and Dyslexia. The system allows access to up to 500 hours of vid...
Laurent Joyeux, Erika Doyle, Hugh Denman, Andrew C...
Tuning database system configuration parameters to proper values according to the expected query workload plays a very important role in determining DBMS performance. However, the ...
Biplob K. Debnath, Mohamed F. Mokbel, David J. Lil...
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...