Abstract. The traditional unification is strict in the sense that it requires a perfect agreement between the terms being unified. In practice, data is seldom error-free and can co...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...
—This paper introduces several new guiding ideologies in “the Principle of Computer Organization” course reform, based on the purpose of application-oriented personnel traini...
As online social networking emerges, there has been increased interest to utilize the underlying social structure as well as the available social information to improve search. In...
Gautam Das, Nick Koudas, Manos Papagelis, Sushruth...
With the tremendous growth of system memories, memoryresident databases are increasingly becoming important in various domains. Newer memories provide a structured way of storing ...
Jayaprakash Pisharath, Alok N. Choudhary, Mahmut T...