Webcams, microphones, pressure gauges and other sensors provide exciting new opportunities for querying and monitoring the physical world. In this paper we focus on querying wide ...
Amol Deshpande, Suman Kumar Nath, Phillip B. Gibbo...
Data stream management systems need to control their resources adaptively since stream characteristics and query workload may vary over time. In this paper we investigate an approa...
Many text databases on the web are "hidden" behind search interfaces, and their documents are only accessible through querying. Search engines typically ignore the conte...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano, Mehran Saha...
The problem of integrating relevant information obtained from multiple heterogeneous sources is a complex task, with which biologists are now faced. In this paper, we address the p...
Alain Bidault, Sarah Cohen Boulakia, Christine Fro...
This work addresses a novel spatial keyword query called the m-closest keywords (mCK) query. Given a database of spatial objects, each tuple is associated with some descriptive inf...