This paper addresses a fundamental and challenging problem with broad applications: efficient processing of region-based promotion queries, i.e., to discover the top-k most inter...
Researchers in the data mining area frequently have to spend significant portion of their time on preprocessing the data in order to apply their algorithms to real-world datasets...
Zhaoqi Chen, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotr...
Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Tuning tools attempt to configure a database to achieve optimal performance for a given workload. Selecting an optimal set of physical structures is computationally hard since it ...
Ioannis Alagiannis, Debabrata Dash, Karl Schnaitte...