When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
Numerous widely publicized cases of theft and misuse of private information underscore the need for audit technology to identify the sources of unauthorized disclosure. We present...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Jerry Ki...
Applications requiring the handling of uncertain data have led to the development of database management systems extending the scope of relational databases to include uncertain (p...
Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Rahul Shah, Sunil ...
Index trees created using distance based indexing are difficult to maintain online since the distance function involved is often costly to compute. This problem is intensified whe...