Relational database systems represent the current standard technology for implementing database applications. Now that the object-oriented paradigm becomes more and more mature in...
New telecommunication services and mobility networks have introduced databases in telecommunication networks. Compared with traditional use of databases, telecom databases must fu...
Today, more and more enterprises process XML data, many of them already in XML database systems. Once systems start to grow in size, scalability becomes an issue. One of the core o...
Pattern Databases were a major breakthrough in heuristic search by solving hard combinatorial problems various orders of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art techniques at that ...
Abstract. We study here fundamental issues involved in top-k query evaluation in probabilistic databases. We consider simple probabilistic databases in which probabilities are asso...