Recently, there has been much interest in processing skyline queries for various applications that include decision making, personalized services, and search pruning. Skyline queri...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed E. Khalefa, Mohamed ...
This paper presents a novel algorithm for Incremental and General Evaluation of continuous Reverse Nearest neighbor queries (IGERN, for short). The IGERN algorithm is general as it...
James M. Kang, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Shashi Shekhar, ...
An interesting issue in moving objects databases is to find similar trajectories of moving objects. Previous work on this topic focuses on movement patterns (trajectories with tim...
Relational query optimizers have traditionally relied upon table cardinalities when estimating the cost of the query plans they consider. While this approach has been and continue...
The problem of query containment is fundamental to many aspects of database systems, including query optimization, determining independence of queries from updates, and rewriting ...