Though database technology has been remarkably successful in building a large market and adapting to the changes of the last three decades, its impact on the broader market of inf...
Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Joseph S. Glider, Rich...
Elevation maps are a widely used spatial data representation in geographical information systems (GIS). Paths on elevation maps can be characterized by profiles, which describe re...
Environmental monitoring is a promising application for sensor networks. Many scenarios produce geographically correlated readings, making them visually interesting and good targe...
Materialized views can provide massive improvements in query processing time, especially for aggregation queries over large tables. To realize this potential, the query optimizer ...
Recognizing the alternative ways people use to reference an entity, is important for many Web applications that query structured data. In such applications, there is often a mismat...