Recording the location of people using location-acquisition technologies, such as GPS, allows generating life patterns, which associate people to places they frequently visit. Con...
Sensor networks are unattended deeply distributed systems whose schema can be conceptualized using the relational model. Aggregation queries on the data sampled at each ode are th...
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
Topological invariants of spatial databases (i.e., finite structures that capture the topological properties of the database) are receiving increasing attention since they can act...
Serafino Cicerone, Daniele Frigioni, Paolino Di Fe...
Abstract. This paper discusses concurrency control in distributed geographical database systems. A geographic data server providing transactional services must be designed to handl...