The explosive growth of location-detection devices, wireless communications, and mobile databases has resulted in the realization of location-based services as commercial products...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly managing very large sets of data and hence a centralized data repository may not always provide the most scalable solution. H...
Massive amounts of raw data are currently being generated by biologists while sequencing organisms. Outside of the largest, high-pro le projects such as the Human Genome Project, ...
In recent years, link-based information retrieval methods from the Web are developed. A framework of these methods is a Web graph using pages as vertices and Web-links as edges. In...
Data consistency is very desirable because strong semantic properties make it easier to write correct programs that perform as users expect. However, there are good reasons why co...