A common technique used to minimize I/O in data intensive applications is data declustering over parallel servers. This technique involves distributing data among several disks so...
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ali Saman Tosun, Guadalupe ...
In this work, we consider augmenting SQL with constructs allowing dynamic restructuring. Dynamic restructuring occurs naturally in a framework including second-order capabilities f...
This work addresses a novel spatial keyword query called the m-closest keywords (mCK) query. Given a database of spatial objects, each tuple is associated with some descriptive inf...
XML streams, such as RSS feeds or complex event streams, are becoming increasingly pervasive as they provide the foundation for a wide range of emerging applications. An important...
We develop a data integration approach for the efficient evaluation of queries over autonomous source databases. The approach is based on some novel applications and extensions of...