Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Databases and Information Systems Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Keyword
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Databases and Information Systems
Shortlisting Top-K Assignments, Yimin Lin, Kyriakos Mouratidis
Shortlisting Top-K Assignments, Yimin Lin, Kyriakos Mouratidis
Kyriakos MOURATIDIS
In this paper we identify a novel query type, the top-K assignment query (αTop-K). Consider a set of objects and a set of suppliers, where each object must be assigned to one supplier. Assume that there is a cost associated with every object-supplier pair. If we allocate each object to the server with the smallest cost (for the specific object), the derived overall assignment will have the minimum total cost. In many scenarios, however, runner-up assignments may be required too, like for example when a decision maker needs to make additional considerations, not captured by individual object-supplier costs. In this …
Best Upgrade Plans For Large Road Networks, Yimin Lin, Kyriakos Mouratidis
Best Upgrade Plans For Large Road Networks, Yimin Lin, Kyriakos Mouratidis
Kyriakos MOURATIDIS
In this paper, we consider a new problem in the context of road network databases, named Resource Constrained Best Upgrade Plan computation (BUP, for short). Consider a transportation network (weighted graph) G where a subset of the edges are upgradable, i.e., for each such edge there is a cost, which if spent, the weight of the edge can be reduced to a specific new value. Given a source and a destination in G, and a budget (resource constraint) B, the BUP problem is to identify which upgradable edges should be upgraded so that the shortest path distance between source and …