Mobile smartphone users frequently need to search for nearby points of interest from a location based service, but in a way that preserves the privacy of the users' locations...
Femi G. Olumofin, Piotr K. Tysowski, Ian Goldberg,...
Finding all the occurrences of a twig pattern in an XML database is a core operation for efficient evaluation of XML queries. Recently, Lu et al. [7] proposed the TJFast algorithm ...
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...
A range-sum query is very popular and becomes important in finding trends and in discovering relationships between attributes in diverse database applications. It sums over the se...
In this paper we consider distributed K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) search and range query processing in high dimensional data. Our approach is based on Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH...