In this paper, we introduce preferential regular path queries. These are regular path queries whose symbols are annotated with preference weights for "scaling" up or down...
The problem of frequently updating multi-dimensional indexes arises in many location-dependent applications. While the R-tree and its variants are one of the dominant choices for ...
We present the design and analysis of a customized access method for the content-based image retrieval system, Blobworld. Using the amdb access method analysis tool, we analyzed t...
Properly-designed bulk-loading techniques are more efficient than the conventional tuple-loading method in constructing a multidimensional index tree for a large data set. Although...
Gang Qian, Hyun-Jeong Seok, Qiang Zhu, Sakti Prama...
We study the problem of auditing a batch of SQL queries: Given a forbidden view of a database that should have been kept confidential, a batch of queries that were posed over this ...