Applications ranging from location-based services to multi-player online gaming require continuous query support to monitor, track, and detect events of interest among sets of mov...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
The sparse data is becoming increasingly common and available in many real-life applications. However, relative little attention has been paid to effectively model the sparse data ...
XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for representing data in the World Wide Web. Sophisticated query engines that allow users to effectively tap the data stored in XML d...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kristin Tufte, Chun Zhan...
For the foreseeable future, most data will continue to be stored in relational databases. To work with these data in ontology-based applications, tools and techniques that bridge t...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, Samson W. Tu, Cs...