With the substantial change of declarative query languages from plain SQL to the so-called \object SQLs", in particular OQL, there has surprisingly been not much change in the...
The range nearest-neighbor (NN) query is an important query type in location-based services, as it can be applied to the case that an NN query has a spatial region, instead of a lo...
Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Joe Naps, Suman N...
The work reported here lays the foundations of data exchange in the presence of probabilistic data. This requires rethinking the very basic concepts of traditional data exchange, ...
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
In applications such as vision and molecular biology, a common problem is to find the similar objects to a given target (according to some distance measure) in a large database. T...