An important problem for many location-based applications is the continuous evaluation of proximity relations among moving objects. These relations express whether a given set of ...
Optimizing SQL subqueries has been an active area in database research and the database industry throughout the last decades. Previous work has already identified some approaches ...
The Web of Data has emerged as a way of exposing structured linked data on the Web. It builds on the central building blocks of the Web (URIs, HTTP) and benefits from its simplic...
There is an increasing need to integrate spatial index structures into commercial database management systems. In geographic information systems (GIS), huge amounts of information ...
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (Distributed POMDPs) are evolving as a popular approach for modeling multiagent systems, and many different algorithms ha...