A top-k query combines different rankings of the same set of objects and returns the k objects with the highest combined score according to an aggregate function. We bring to ligh...
Nikos Mamoulis, Kit Hung Cheng, Man Lung Yiu, Davi...
Web-database systems are nowadays an integral part of everybody's life, with applications ranging from monitoring/trading stock portfolios, to personalized blog aggregation a...
Stream-processing systems are designed to support an emerging class of applications that require sophisticated and timely processing of high-volume data streams, often originating...
Alex Rasin, Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Magdalena Balazinska...
Distributed and parallel computing environments are becoming cheap and commonplace. The availability of large numbers of CPU's makes it possible to process more data at highe...
Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is the most significant effort currently underway to enable web users to gain control over their private information. P3P provides mechanism...
Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikan...