We introduce and study a new class of queries that we refer to as ACMA (arithmetic constraints on multiple attributes) queries. Such combinatorial queries require the simultaneous...
RFID data are usually regarded as streaming data that are huge and change frequently because they are gathered continuously by numerous readers. RFID middleware filters the data a...
Complex queries often contain common or similar subexpressions, either within a single query or among multiple queries submitted as a batch. If so, query execution time can be imp...
Jingren Zhou, Johann Christoph Freytag, Per-Å...
XML is widely praised for its flexibility in allowing repeated and missing sub-elements. However, this flexibility makes it challenging to develop a bulk algebra, which typically ...
Stelios Paparizos, Yuqing Wu, Laks V. S. Lakshmana...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...