Advanced instruments in a variety of scientific domains are collecting massive amounts of data that must be postprocessed and organized to support research activities. Astronomers...
Current moving-object indexing concentrates on point-objects capable of continuous movement in one-, two-, and three-dimensional Euclidean spaces, and most approaches are based on...
Suffix tree is an important data structure for indexing a long sequence (like a genome sequence) or a concatenation of sequences. It finds many applications in practice, especiall...
Results caching is an efficient technique for reducing the query processing load, hence it is commonly used in real search engines. This technique, however, bounds the maximum hit...
The skyline operator returns from a set of multi-dimensional objects a subset of superior objects that are not dominated by others. This operation is considered very important in ...