Location-based services are increasingly popular and it is a key challenge to efficiently support query processing. We present a novel design to process large numbers of location...
Web communities involve networks of loosely coupled data sources. Members in those communities should be able to pose queries and gather results from all data sources in the networ...
—This paper compares and illustrates the use of manually and automatically assigned descriptors on German documents extracted from the GIRT Corpus. A second objective is to analy...
This paper presents a framework for building and continuously maintaining spatio-temporal histograms (ST-Histograms, for short). ST-Histograms are used for selectivity estimation o...
Hicham G. Elmongui, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Ar...