XML has already become the de facto standard for specifying and exchanging data on the Web. However, XML is by nature verbose and thus XML documents are usually large in size, a fa...
Wilfred Ng, Wai Yeung Lam, Peter T. Wood, Mark Lev...
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...
—In reality, spatial objects (e.g., hotels) not only have spatial locations but also have quality attributes (e.g., price, star). An object p is said to dominate another one p , ...
This paper analyzes the performance of concurrent (index) scan operations in both record (NSM/PAX) and column (DSM) disk storage models and shows that existing scheduling policies...
Resource discovery in a Grid environment is a critical problem, as a typical Grid system includes a very large number of resources, which must be readily identified and accessed ...