A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k q...
Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nick Koudas, Niko...
This paper presents a middleware framework for storing, accessing and analyzing massive-scale semantic graphs. The framework, MSSG, targets scale-free semantic graphs with O(1012 ...
Large scale scientific data is often stored in scientific data formats such as FITS, netCDF and HDF. These storage formats are of particular interest to the scientific user com...
Luke J. Gosink, John Shalf, Kurt Stockinger, Keshe...
While the cost per megabyte of magnetic disk storage is economical, organizations are alarmed by the increasing cost of managing storage. Storage Area Network (SAN) architectures ...
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Shan Gao, Chris Gahagan, ...
Security is a critical issue in mobile commerce, especially in mobile database systems since mobile environments are dynamic and traditional protection mechanisms do not work very...