Distributed and Parallel Databases, Volume 26

Volume 26, Number 1, August 2009

• Ihab F. Ilyas:
  Guest editorial: special issue on ranking in databases. 1-2
  
• Thomas Neumann, Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Ralf Schenkel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Weikum:
  Distributed top-k aggregation queries at large. 3-27
  
• Ming Hua, Jian Pei:
  Continuously monitoring top-k uncertain data streams: a probabilistic threshold method. 29-65
  
• Xi Zhang, Jan Chomicki:
  Semantics and evaluation of top-k queries in probabilistic databases. 67-126
  
• Youngdae Kim, Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang:
  Ranking strategies and threats: a cost-based pareto optimization approach. 127-150