In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in spatial databases. A major issue is how to manipulate efficiently massive amounts of spatial data stored on disk in multidi...
Lars Arge, Klaus Hinrichs, Jan Vahrenhold, Jeffrey...
We consider the problem of horizontally partitioning a dynamic relation across a large number of disks/nodes by the use of range partitioning. Such partitioning is often desirable...
Search engines use inverted files as index data structures to speed up the solution of user queries. The index is distributed on a set of processors forming a cluster of computer...
The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
This paper presents "Self-Chord," a peer-to-peer (P2P) system that inherits the ability of Chord-like structured systems for the construction and maintenance of an overla...
Agostino Forestiero, Emilio Leonardi, Carlo Mastro...