Decision support applications involve complex queries on very large databases. Since response times should be small, query optimization is critical. Users typically view the data ...
Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ull...
In this paper, we consider a special type of triangular range search for a planar point set S in the I/O-model. Here, two sides of the query triangle are parallel to the coordinat...
Answering aggregate queries like sum, count, min, max over regions containing moving objects is often needed for virtual world applications, real-time monitoring systems, etc. Sin...
The presence of encyclopedic Web sources, such as Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), World Factbook, etc. calls for new querying techniques that are simple and yet mor...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...
In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...