In recent years, data provenance or lineage tracing which refers to the process of tracing the sources of data, data movement between databases, and annotations written for data ha...
Partitioned query processing is an effective method to process continuous queries with large stateful operators in a distributed systems. This method typically partitions input da...
The application of information retrieval techniques in interactive environments requires systems capable of efficiently processing vague queries. To reach reasonable response tim...
We consider a distributed information system that allows autonomous consumers to query autonomous providers. We focus on the problem of query allocation from a new point of view, ...
Location-based information contained in publicly available GIS databases is invaluable for many applications such as disaster response, national infrastructure protection, crime a...