Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Fourth Edition introduces concepts, principles, and
methods for mining patterns, knowledge, and models from various kinds of data for diverse …

Data Warehouses are the core of the modern systems for decision making. They store
integrated information extracted from various and heterogeneous data sources, making it …

The skyline of ad-dimensional dataset contains the points that are not dominated by any
other point on all dimensions. Skyline computation has recently received considerable …

Given a spatial location and a set of keywords, a top-k spatial keyword query returns the k
best spatio-textual objects ranked according to their proximity to the query location and …

Space support in databases poses new challenges in every part of a database management
system & the capability of spatial support in the physical layer is considered very important …

Nowadays, mobile users with global positioning devices canaccess Location Based
Services (LBS) and query about pointsof interest in their proximity. For such applications to …

Advanced technologies in location acquisition allow us to track the movement of moving
objects (people, planes, vehicles, animals, ships,...) in geographical space. These …

This volume was born from the experience of the authors as researchers and educators,
which suggests that many students of data mining are handicapped in their research by the …

The top-k dominating query returns k data objects which dominate the highest number of
objects in a dataset. This query is an important tool for decision support since it provides …

In this big data era, huge amounts of spatial documents have been generated everyday
through various location based services. Top-k spatial keyword search is an important …