In this article we investigate a novel execution paradigm—ML-like pattern-matching— for XML query processing. We show that such a paradigm is well adapted for a common and freq...
Abstract. With sensors and mobile devices becoming ubiquitous, situation monitoring applications are becoming a reality. Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) have been proposed t...
Query folding refers to the activity of determining if and how a query can be answered using a given set of resources, which might be materialized views, cached results of previou...
— We consider how to support a large number of users over a wide-area network whose interests are characterized by range top-k continuous queries. Given an object update, we need...
With the popularization of GPS-enabled devices there is an increasing interest for location-based queries. In this context, one interesting problem is processing top-k spatial key...