Elevation maps are a widely used spatial data representation in geographical information systems (GIS). Paths on elevation maps can be characterized by profiles, which describe re...
The development of location-based services and advances in the field of mobile computing have motivated an intensive research effort devoted to the efficient processing of locati...
Sergio Ilarri, Antonio Corral, Carlos Bobed, Eduar...
Popular XML languages, like XPath, use “treepattern” queries to select nodes based on their structural characteristics. While many processing methods have already been propose...
— The ubiquity of mobile devices has led to a rising demand for location-based services and applications. A major part of these services is based on the location-detection capabi...
Multiversion two-phase locking (MV2PL) has been incorporated in some commercial transaction processing systems to support the serializable execution of queries. A drawback to this...