Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
Abstract: An effective processing and analysis of data streams is of utmost importance for a plethora of emerging applications like network monitoring, traffic management, and fi...
This paper presents the Scalable On-Line Execution algorithm (SOLE, for short) for continuous and on-line evaluation of concurrent continuous spatio- temporal queries over data str...
A common approach to performing keyword search over relational databases is to find the minimum Steiner trees in database graphs. These methods, however, are rather expensive as th...
In existing database systems there is a strong need for searching data according to many attributes. In commercial database platforms, the standard search over multiple attributes...