We are witnessing in recent years growing interest for location-dependent information services among mobile users. This paper examines the issue of processing locationdependent qu...
Jianliang Xu, Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
XML is widely praised for its flexibility in allowing repeated and missing sub-elements. However, this flexibility makes it challenging to develop a bulk algebra, which typically ...
Stelios Paparizos, Yuqing Wu, Laks V. S. Lakshmana...
This paper introduces a framework for processing continuous, exact queries over continuous update XML streams. Instead of eagerly performing the updates on cached portions of the s...
Data warehouses store large volumes of data according to a multidimensional model with dimensions representing different axes of analysis. OLAP systems (OnLine Analytical Processi...
In this paper we describe novel techniques that make it possible to build an industrial-strength tool for automating the choice of indexes in the physical design of a SQL database...