The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
Recently, systems providing access to extremely large data collections, managed in a distributed manner, gain emerging attention. A promising approach to implement the physical la...
With the growing importance of XML in data exchange, much research has been done in providing flexible query facilities to extract data from structured XML documents. In this pape...
Traditional indexes aim at optimizing the node accesses during query processing, which, however, does not necessarily minimize the total cost due to the possibly large number of r...
We introduce a novel data structure for solving the range query problem in generic metric spaces. It can be seen as a dynamic version of the List of Clusters data structure of Ch´...