Distributed data processing is becoming a reality. Businesses want to do it for many
reasons, and they often must do it in order to stay competitive. While much of the …

We propose to extend database systems by a Skyline operation. This operation filters out a
set of interesting points from a potentially large set of data points. A point is interesting if it is …

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …

Some queries cannot be answered by machines only. Processing such queries requires
human input for providing information that is missing from the database, for performing …

This paper proposes LARS, a location-aware recommender system that uses location-based
ratings to produce recommendations. Traditional recommender systems do not consider …

Publisher Summary Skyline queries are important for several database applications,
including customer information systems, decision support, and data visualization. This …

We study the problem of group recommendation. Recommendation is an important
information exploration paradigm that retrieves interesting items for users based on their …

In the last two decades, interactive visualization and analysis have become a central tool in
data-driven decision making. Concurrently to the contributions in data visualization …

6,026,413 A 2/2000 Challenger et al.... 707/202 The preloader uses a cache replacement
manager to manage 6,055,572 A 4/2000 Saksena............... 709/224 the replacement of …

Similarity search is a very important operation in multimedia databases and other database
applications involving complex objects, and involves finding objects in a data set S similar to …