As the popularity of areas including document storage and distributed systems continues to grow, the demand for high performance XML databases is increasingly evident. This has le...
Database queries, in particular, event-driven continuous queries, are useful for many pervasive computing applications, such as video surveillance. In order to enable these applic...
We introduce a new type of query, called a real-time continuous query (RCQ), that captures the real-time requirements of processing data streams. We develop techniques to efficien...
Dhananjay Kulkarni, Chinya V. Ravishankar, Mitch C...
Given a set of objects and a query q, a point p is
called the reverse k nearest neighbor (RkNN) of q if q is one of
the k closest objects of p. In this paper, we introduce the c...
Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Y...
It has long been recognised that interactivity improves the effectiveness of Information Retrieval systems. Speech is the most natural and interactive medium of communication and ...