Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
Solid state drives perform random reads more than 100x faster than traditional magnetic hard disks, while offering comparable sequential read and write bandwidth. Because of their...
Abstract-- Skyline computation has many applications including multi-criteria decision making. In this paper, we study the problem of efficient processing of continuous skyline que...
Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Wei Wang 001...
Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a ...
A reverse nearest neighbor (RNN) query returns the data objects that have a query point as their nearest neighbor (NN). Although such queries have been studied quite extensively in...
Man Lung Yiu, Dimitris Papadias, Nikos Mamoulis, Y...