Rapid advancements in positioning systems and wireless communications enable accurate tracking of continuously moving objects. This development poses new challenges to database te...
Shuqiao Guo, Zhiyong Huang, H. V. Jagadish, Beng C...
We describe the design and implementation of a new data layout scheme, called multi-dimensional clustering, in DB2 Universal Database Version 8. Many applications, e.g., OLAP and ...
Spatial database operations are typically performed in two steps. In the filtering step, indexes and the minimum bounding rectangles (MBRs) of the objects are used to quickly dete...
In the rank join problem, we are given a set of relations and a scoring function, and the goal is to return the join results with the top K scores. It is often the case in practic...
With the wide diffusion of digital image acquisition devices,
the cost of managing hundreds of digital images is quickly increasing.
Currently, the main way to search digital ima...