One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) based on a dimensional view of data is being used increasingly for the purpose of analyzing very large amounts of data. To improve query perfo...
Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, Curtis ...
The importance of dominance and skyline analysis has been well recognized in multi-criteria decision making applications. Most previous studies assume a fixed order on the attribu...
Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Jian Pei, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, ...
Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
We propose an automatic method for modeling a relational database that uses SQL triggers and foreign-keys to efficiently answer positive semantic queries about ground instances for...
Paea LePendu, Dejing Dou, Gwen A. Frishkoff, Jiawe...