Spatial join is an important yet costly operation in spatial databases. In order to speed up the execution of a spatial join, the input tables are often indexed based on their spa...
Context-aware systems are pervading everyday life, therefore context modeling is becoming a relevant issue and an expanding research field. This survey has the goal to provide a c...
Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo Curino, Elisa Quintarell...
We present a continuously adaptive, continuous query (CACQ) implementation based on the eddy query processing framework. We show that our design provides significant performance b...
Samuel Madden, Mehul A. Shah, Joseph M. Hellerstei...
Abstract. With the increased need of data sharing among multiple organizations, such as government organizations, financial corporations, medical hospitals and academic institution...
In this paper, we investigate the exploitation of user profiles defined in social tagging services to personalize Web search. One of the key challenges of a personalization framewo...