As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
The XML Wrapper is a new feature of the federated database capabilities of DB2/UDB v8. It enables users and applications to issue SQL queries against XML data from a variety of so...
Continuous spatial queries posted within an environment of moving objects produce as their results a time-varying set of objects. In the most ambitious case both queries and data ...
Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Wei-...
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
Several application contexts require the ability to use together and compare different geographic datasets (maps) concerning the same or overlapping areas. This is for example the...
Alberto Belussi, Barbara Catania, Paola Podest&agr...