Information is valuable to users when it is available not only at the right time but also at the right place. To support efficient location-based data access in wireless data broad...
Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Ken C. K. Lee, Dik L...
Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
Peer-to-peer databases are becoming prevalent on the Internet for distribution and sharing of documents, applications, and other digital media. The problem of answering large scal...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Va...
Given two sets of points P and Q, a group nearest neighbor (GNN) query retrieves the point(s) of P with the smallest sum of distances to all points in Q. Consider, for instance, t...
We study similarity queries for time series data where similarity is defined in terms of a set of linear transformations on the Fourier series representation of a sequence. We hav...