Geospatial queries (GQ) have been used in a wide variety of applications such as decision support systems, profile-based marketing, bioinformatics and GIS. Most of the existing qu...
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Current distributed database and stream processing systems assume that the network connecting nodes in the data processor is "always on," and that the absence of a netwo...
Yang Zhang, Bret Hull, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel M...
Context-awareness has become a desired key feature of today’s mobile systems, yet, its realization still remains a challenge. On the one hand, mobile computing provides great po...
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Partial evaluation has recently proven an effective technique for evaluating Boolean XPath queries over a fragmented tree that is distributed over a number of sites. What left ope...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
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