Recently, the problem of efficiently supporting advanced query operators, such as nearest neighbor or range queries, over multidimensional data in widely distributed environments...
—A massive volume of biological sequence data is available in over 36 different databases worldwide, including the sequence data generated by the Human Genome project. These data...
?Past R-tree studies have focused on the number of nodes visited as a metric of query performance. Since database systems usually include a buffering mechanism, we propose that the...
Semantic caching is an important technology for improving the response time of future user queries specified over remote servers. This paper deals with the fundamental query conta...
In an outsourced data framework, we introduce and demonstrate mechanisms for securely storing a set of data items (documents) on an un-trusted server, while allowing for subsequen...
Radu Sion, Sumeet Bajaj, Bogdan Carbunar, Stefan K...