Continued advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies have created a strong market push for location-based applications. Examples include location-aware emergency resp...
Nowadays, due to the increased user requirements of the fast and reliable data management operation for mobile applications, major device vendors use embedded DBMS for their mobil...
Probabilistic databases hold promise of being a viable means for large-scale uncertainty management, increasingly needed in a number of real world applications domains. However, q...
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
The explosive increase of image data on Internet has made it an important, yet very challenging task to index and automatically annotate image data. To achieve that end, sophistic...