We study the efficient evaluation of top-k queries over data items, where the score of each item is dynamically computed by applying an item-specific function whose parameter valu...
Lin Guo, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jay...
Complex networks have been used successfully in scientific disciplines ranging from sociology to microbiology to describe systems of interacting units. Until recently, studies of...
Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Most importantly, algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database ...
Background: Research involving expressed sequence tags (ESTs) is intricately coupled to the existence of large, well-annotated sequence repositories. Comparatively complete and sa...
R. Henrik Nilsson, Balaji Rajashekar, Karl-Henrik ...
Aggregation against distinct objects has been involved in many real applications with the presence of duplicates, including real-time monitoring moving objects. In this paper, we ...
Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, X...