This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas...
Range queries based on L1 distance are a common type of queries in multimedia databases containing feature vectors. We propose a novel approach that transforms the feature space i...
Sakti Pramanik, Alok Watve, Chad R. Meiners, Alex ...
Databases have employed a schema-based approach to store and retrieve structured data for decades. For peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, similar approaches are just beginning to emerge,...
Utility elicitation is an important component of many applications, such as decision support systems and recommender systems. Such systems query users about their preferences and ...
Database-like query processing over a network of sensors has become an attractive paradigm for building sensor applications. A sensor query is characterized by data streams among ...
Vladimir Zadorozhny, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Alexand...