The prevalent use of XML highlights the need for a generic, flexible access-control mechanism for XML documents that supports efficient and secure query access, without revealing ...
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
— In contrast to the traditional wireless sensor network (WSN) applications that perform only data collection and aggregation, new generation of information processing applicatio...
Content-based retrieval of spatio-temporal patterns from human motion databases is inherently nontrivial since finding effective distance measures for such data is difficult. These...
Yueguo Chen, Shouxu Jiang, Beng Chin Ooi, Anthony ...
P2P Networks are highly dynamic structures since their nodes – peer users keep joining and leaving continuously. In the paper, we study the effects of network change rates on qu...