While the information published in the form of XML-compliant documents keeps fast mounting up, efficient and effective query processing and optimization for XML have now become mor...
Grid applications need efficient access to information about available resources and services. Typically, this access is provided by information services that are often organized ...
Linear optimization queries retrieve the top-K tuples in a sliding window of a data stream that maximize/minimize the linearly weighted sums of certain attribute values. To effici...
Document retrieval and web search engines index large quantities of text. The static costs associated with storing the index can be traded against dynamic costs associated with us...
Query processing on mobile sensor networks requires efficient indexing and partitioning of the data space to support efficient routing as the network scales up. Building an index ...