Bücher von Yannis Manolopoulos

This book is a gentle introduction to dominance-based query processing techniques and their applications. The book aims to present fundamental as well as some advanced issues in the area in a precise, but easy-to-follow, manner. Dominance is an intuitive concept that can be used in many different ways in diverse application domains. The concept of dominance is based on the values of the attributes of each object. An object ,,,, dominates another object ,,,, if ,,,, is better than ,,,,. This goodness criterion may differ from one user to another. However, all decisions boil down to the minimization or maximization of attribute values. In this book, we will explore algorithms and applications related to dominance-based query processing. The concept of dominance has a long history in finance and multi-criteria optimization. However, the introduction of the concept to the database community in 2001 inspired many researchers to contribute to the area. Therefore, many algorithmic techniques have been proposed for the efficient processing of dominance-based queries, such as skyline queries, ,,,,-dominant queries, and top-,,,, dominating queries, just to name a few.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014. The 52 full papers, 16 short and 14 poster papers, presented in the two-volume proceedings LNCS 8786 and 8787 were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: Web mining, modeling and classification; Web querying and searching; Web recommendation and personalization; semantic Web; social online networks; software architectures amd platforms; Web technologies and frameworks; Web innovation and applications; and challenge.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2014, held in Ohrid, Macedonia, in September 2014. The 26 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully selected and reviewed from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data models and query languages; data warehousing; query and data-flow optimization; information extraction and integration; spatial, temporal and streaming data; data mining and knowledge discovery; data organization and physical issues; and data and business processes.

The refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2003, held at Santorini Island, Greece in July 2003.The 28 revised full papers presented together with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on access methods, advanced query processing, data mining and data warehousing, distance-based queries, mobility and moving points management, modeling and languages, similarity processing, systems and implementation issues.

Advanced Signature Indexing for Multimedia and Web Applications presents the latest research developments in signature-based indexing and query processing, specifically in multimedia and Web domains.

Introduces the basic material on storage media, including magnetic disks, RAID systems and tertiary storage such as optical disk and tapes. This book also introduces typical access methods (B+ trees, dynamic hash files and secondary key retrieval). It discusses advances in indexing and access methods for particular database applications.

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.