Abstract: Multimedia databases are increasingly common in science, business, entertainment and many other applications. Their size and high dimensionality of features are major cha...
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...
We present a new run-time system for typed programming languages that supports object sharing in a distributed system. The key insight in this system is that the ability to distin...
Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wall...
In this paper, we study the evaluation of skyline queries with partially-ordered attributes. Because such attributes lack a total ordering, traditional index-based evaluation algo...
An important issue in data warehouse development is the selection of a set of views to materialize in order to accelerate OLAP queries, given certain space and maintenance time co...