In this paper, we propose a new tunable index scheme, called iMinMax, that maps points in high dimensional spaces to single dimension values determined by their maximum or minimu...
Information Dissemination applications are gaining increasing popularity due to dramatic improvements in communications bandwidth and ubiquity. The sheer volume of data available ...
Digital libraries can take advantage of documents that have their content (semantics) explicitly represented as knowledge structures. These knowledge-rich documents can be created ...
This paper presents an architecture for a persistent object store in which multi-level storage is explicitly included. Traditionally, DBMSs have assumed that all accessible data r...
The growing availability of mobile devices produces an enormous quantity of personal tracks which calls for advanced analysis methods capable of extracting knowledge out of massiv...