In the k-medoid problem, given a dataset P, we are asked to choose k points in P as the medoids. The optimal medoid set minimizes the average Euclidean distance between the points ...
With the advance of the Semantic Web, varying RDF data were increasingly generated, published, queried, and reused via the Web. For example, the DBpedia, a community effort to extr...
There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
Online monitoring of data streams poses a challenge in many data-centric applications, such as telecommunications networks, traffic management, trend-related analysis, webclick st...
Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are essential for decision support applications. Common OLAP operations include for example drill down, roll up, pivot an...