Many location-based applications require constant monitoring of k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) queries over moving objects within a geographic area. Existing approaches to this problem...
Whenever XML data must be shared by heterogeneous applications, transformations between different applicationspecific XML formats are necessary. The state-of-the-art method transf...
We study similarity queries for time series data where similarity is defined in terms of a set of linear transformations on the Fourier series representation of a sequence. We ha...
With the amount of data in current data warehouse databases growing steadily, random sampling is continuously gaining in importance. In particular, interactive analyses of large d...
Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...