Ranking queries report the top-K results according to a user-defined scoring function. A widely used scoring function is the weighted summation of multiple scores. Often times, u...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinen...
Over the last decade the cost of producing genomic sequences has dropped dramatically due to the current so called “next-gen” sequencing methods. However, these next-gen seque...
Wikis have proved enormously successful as a means to collaborate in the creation and publication of textual information. At the same time, a large number of curated databases hav...
Peter Buneman, James Cheney, Sam Lindley, Heiko M&...
We address the problem of making online, parallel query plans fault-tolerant: i.e., provide intra-query fault-tolerance without blocking. We develop an approach that not only achi...
Automatically generating sufficient database states is imperative to reduce human efforts in testing database applications. Complementing the traditional block or branch coverage...