Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision-making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about un...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
Accurate cardinality estimation is critically important to high-quality query optimization. It is well known that conventional cardinality estimation based on histograms or simila...
Many data-driven social and Web applications involve collaboration and coordination. The vision of declarative data-driven coordination (D3C), proposed in [9], is to support coord...
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....
The skyline of a d-dimensional dataset consists of all points not dominated by others. The incorporation of the skyline operator into practical database systems necessitates an ef...