Recently, privacy issues have become important in clustering analysis, especially when data is horizontally partitioned over several parties. Associative queries are the core retr...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...
Page ordering is to define the order of pages in one-dimensional storage for storing two-dimensional spatial data to reduce the number of disk seeks. Previous works relating to pag...
Text is a pervasive information type, and many applications require querying over text sources in addition to structured data. This paper studies the problem of query processing i...
Service providers like Google and Amazon are moving into the SaaS (Software as a Service) business. They turn their huge infrastructure into a cloud-computing environment and aggr...
Wai Kit Wong, David Wai-Lok Cheung, Ben Kao, Nikos...