Providing a fully functional multimedia DBMS (MMDBMS) becomes an emergency with the recent development of distributed environments. In this paper, we address the impact of using w...
We introduce a novel spatial join operator, the ring-constrained join (RCJ). Given two sets P and Q of spatial points, the result of RCJ consists of pairs p, q (where p P, q Q) ...
Infomaster is an information integration system. It provides integrated access to distributed, heterogeneous information sources, thus giving its users the illusion of a centraliz...
In order to cope with the expected size of the Semantic Web (SW) in the coming years, we need to benchmark existing SW tools (e.g., query language interpreters) in a credible manne...
Yannis Theoharis, George Georgakopoulos, Vassilis ...
Due to the problems of heterogeneous data and platforms, abundant functional and QoS requirements, high data size, and tangling correlation between data/contents and software func...
Shih-Hsi Liu, Yu Cao, Ming Li, Pranay Kilaru, Thel...