Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
Several variations of nearest neighbor (NN) query have been investigated by the database community. However, realworld applications often result in the formulation of new variatio...
Mehdi Sharifzadeh, Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan, Cyrus ...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
A system of linear equations in p unknowns Mx = b is said to have the removal property if every set S ⊆ {1, . . . , n} which contains o(np− ) solutions of Mx = b can be turned...
Manifold learning methods are promising data analysis tools. However, if we locate a new test sample on the manifold, we have to find its embedding by making use of the learned e...