Abstract-- Skyline computation has many applications including multi-criteria decision making. In this paper, we study the problem of efficient processing of continuous skyline que...
Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Wei Wang 001...
Spatial join is an important yet costly operation in spatial databases. In order to speed up the execution of a spatial join, the input tables are often indexed based on their spa...
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
In this paper, we describe a new indexing technique, the time indez, for improving the performance of certain classes of temporal queries. The time index can be used to retrieve v...
A lack of power and extensibility in their query languages has seriously limited the generality of DBMSs and hampered their ability to support data mining applications. Thus, ther...