A location-based service (LBS) provides information based on the location information specified in a query. Nearest-neighbor (NN) search is an important class of queries supported ...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
Abstract. Many different index structures have been proposed for spatial databases to support efficient query processing. However, most of these index structures suffer from an exp...
Data replication is a central technique to increase availability and performance of distributed systems. While offering many advantages it also requires more effort for ensuring d...
Daniel Klan, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Katja Hose, Marcel K...
XML Schema awareness has been an integral part of the XQuery language since its early design stages. Matching XML data against XML types is the main operation that backs up XQuery...
Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) must support optimized execution scheduling of multiple continuous queries on massive, and frequently bursty, data streams. Previous approac...