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PODS
1998
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
A Cost Model for Similarity Queries in Metric Spaces
We consider the problem of estimating CPU (distance computations) and I/O costs for processing range and k-nearest neighbors queries over metric spaces. Unlike the specific case ...
Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Pavel Zezula
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 16 hour ago
Progressive optimization in a shared-nothing parallel database
Commercial enterprise data warehouses are typically implemented on parallel databases due to the inherent scalability and performance limitation of a serial architecture. Queries ...
Wook-Shin Han, Jack Ng, Volker Markl, Holger Kache...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
106views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Mining Trajectory Databases via a Suite of Distance Operators
With the rapid progress of mobile devices and positioning technologies, Trajectory Databases (TD) have been in the core of database research during the last decade. Analysis and k...
Nikos Pelekis, Ioannis Kopanakis, Irene Ntoutsi, G...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
210views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 17 hour ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
WISE
2002
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Database Support for Spatial Generalisation for WWW and Mobile Applications
The need of using spatial vector data for web-based and mobile applications has been increasing rapidly. Vector spatial data is difficult to generalise (that is, to derive a suita...
Xiaofang Zhou, Sham Prasher, Masaru Kitsuregawa