Data sources on the web are often accessible through web interfaces that present them as relational tables, but require certain attributes to be mandatorily selected, e.g., via a w...
— Skyline queries are capable of retrieving interesting points from a large data set according to multiple criteria. Most work on skyline queries so far has assumed a centralized...
Bin Cui, Hua Lu, Quanqing Xu, Lijiang Chen, Yafei ...
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...
—Location sharing is a fundamental component of mobile online social networks (mOSNs), which also raises significant privacy concerns. The mOSNs collect a large amount of locati...
The two main approaches to find data in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are unstructured networks using flooding and structured networks using a distributed index. A distributed index i...