In this paper, we motivate four di erent user de ned window query classes and derive a probabilistic model for each of them. For each model, we characterize the e ciency of spatia...
Bernd-Uwe Pagel, Hans-Werner Six, Heinrich Toben, ...
Query optimizers in current database systems are designed to pick a single efficient plan for a given query based on current statistical properties of the data. However, different...
Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jen...
Sensor networks will shortly consist of globally deployed sensors providing real-time geo-centric information to users. Particularly, users with mobile devices will issue ad-hoc q...
Mohamed Aly, Anandha Gopalan, Jerry Zhao, Adel M. ...
Efficient multi-dimensional data search has received much attention in centralized systems. However, its implementation in large-scale distributed systems is not a trivial job and...