Elevation maps are a widely used spatial data representation in geographical information systems (GIS). Paths on elevation maps can be characterized by profiles, which describe re...
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...
Quantum chemistry applications such as the General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS) that can execute on a complex peta-scale parallel computing environment...
We propose and study a new ranking problem in versioned databases. Consider a database of versioned objects which have different valid instances along a history (e.g., documents i...
Leong Hou U, Nikos Mamoulis, Klaus Berberich, Srik...
Rapid advancements in positioning systems and wireless communications enable accurate tracking of continuously moving objects. This development poses new challenges to database te...
Shuqiao Guo, Zhiyong Huang, H. V. Jagadish, Beng C...