Index structures are designed to optimize search performance, while at the same time supporting efficient data updates. Although not explicit, existing index structures are typica...
Modern information systems, and web information systems in particular, are faced with frequent database schema changes, which generate the necessity to manage them and preserve the...
Recently there has been increasing interest in the development of progress indicators for SQL queries. In this paper we present a lightweight online framework for this problem. Ou...
In high-dimensional and complex metric spaces, determining the nearest neighbor (NN) of a query object ? can be a very expensive task, because of the poor partitioning operated by...
Information is valuable to users when it is available not only at the right time but also at the right place. To support efficient location-based data access in wireless data broad...
Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Ken C. K. Lee, Dik L...