Rank-aware query processing has become essential for many applications that return to the user only the top-k objects based on the individual user's preferences. Top-k queries...
In the telecommunications sector product development must minimise time to market while delivering high levels of dependability, availability, maintainability and scalability. High...
Given a set P of products, a set O of customers, and a product p P, a bichromatic reverse skyline query retrieves all the customers in O that do not find any other product in P t...
Xiaobing Wu, Yufei Tao, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Lin...
Carousel storage systems are often used to increase storage density, throughput and efficiency while reducing inventory and man-hours. The Hewlett-Packard company has developed a ...
As the gap between processor and memory continues to grow, memory performance becomes a key performance bottleneck for many applications. Compilers therefore increasingly seek to m...
Sandya S. Mannarswamy, Ramaswamy Govindarajan, Ris...