Index tuning as part of database tuning is the task of selecting and creating indexes with the goal of reducing query processing times. However, in dynamic environments with vario...
In an “uncertain database”, an object o is associated with a multi-dimensional probability density function (pdf), which describes the likelihood that o appears at each positi...
Yufei Tao, Reynold Cheng, Xiaokui Xiao, Wang Kay N...
Across a wide variety of fields, huge datasets are being collected and accumulated at a dramatical pace. The datasets addressed by individual applications are very often heteroge...
In this paper, we formalize the novel concept of incremental reverse nearest neighbor ranking and suggest an original solution for this problem. We propose an efficient approach f...
In 'Associative Caching' each client computer keeps a copy of its query result sets in its own local database. The purpose is to reduce the size and frequency of queries ...