Progress in science and engineering relies on the ability to measure, reliably and in detail, pertinent properties of artifacts under design. Progress in the area of database-inde...
— Many novel spatio-temporal applications deal with moving objects. In such environments, a database typically maintains the initial position and the moving function for each obj...
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, Vassilis ...
Abstract. Existing approaches to the management of streaming positional updates generally assume that all active user requests have equal importance, ignoring the possibility of an...
One challenge in Earth science research is the accurate and efficient ad-hoc query and retrieval of Earth science satellite sensor data based on user-defined criteria to study and...
Shen-Shyang Ho, Wenqing Tang, W. Timothy Liu, Mark...
Ranking is a fundamental operation in data analysis and decision support, and plays an even more crucial role if the dataset being explored exhibits uncertainty. This has led to m...