With the rapid growth of biomedical research databases, opportunities for scientific inquiry have expanded quickly and led to a demand for computational methods that can extract b...
Mohammed I. Rafiq, Martin J. O'Connor, Amar K. Das
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
As mobile devices with positioning capabilities continue to proliferate, data management for so-called trajectory databases that capture the historical movements of populations of...
Hoyoung Jeung, Man Lung Yiu, Xiaofang Zhou, Christ...
Location information gathered from a variety of sources in the form of sensor data, video streams, human observations, and so on, is often imprecise and uncertain and needs to be ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
To solve this problem, we devised the HS-bitmap index, which is hierarchically comprised of compressed data of summary bits. A summary bit in an upper matrix is obtained by logical...