The indexing of complex data and similarity search plays an important role in many application areas. Traditional centralized index structure can not scale with the rapid prolifer...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
Spatial Alarms are reminders for mobile users upon their arrival of certain spatial location of interest. Spatial alarm processing requires meeting two demanding objectives: high ...
Data availability, collection and storage have increased dramatically in recent years, raising new technological and algorithmic challenges for database design and data management...
Most interactive tasks engage more than one of the user’s exteroceptive senses and are therefore multimodal. In real-world situations with multitasking and distractions, the key...