In an object-relational database management system, a query optimizer requires users to provide cost models of userdefined functions. The traditional approach is analytical, that...
Location-based spatial queries (LBSQs) refer to spatial queries whose answers rely on the location of the inquirer. Efficient processing of LBSQs is of critical importance with the...
Abstract. Often the information present in a spatial knowledge base is represented at a different level of granularity and abstraction than the query constraints. For querying onto...
Prateek Jain, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory A. H...
Abstract-- This work presents a novel index structure, MHRtree, for efficiently answering approximate string match queries in large spatial databases. The MHR-tree is based on the ...
Bin Yao, Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Kun H...
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision-making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about un...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...