Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
Similarity search in large time series databases has attracted much research interest recently. It is a difficult problem because of the typically high dimensionality of the data....
Eamonn J. Keogh, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehro...
Virtually all proposals for querying XML include a class of query we term "containment queries". It is also clear that in the foreseeable future, a substantial amount of...
Chun Zhang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt, ...
Implementing first-class continuations can pose a challenge if the target machine makes no provisions for accessing and re-installing the run-time stack. In this paper, we present...
Greg Pettyjohn, John Clements, Joe Marshall, Shrir...
Cascadia is a system that provides RFID-based pervasive computing applications with an infrastructure for specifying, extracting and managing meaningful high-level events from raw...