Given a positive value r, a distance based range query returns the objects that lie within the distance r of the query location.
In this paper, we focus on the distance based rang...
Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ljiljana Brankovic, Xuemin ...
In this paper, we identify and solve a new type of spatial queries, called continuous visible nearest neighbor (CVNN) search. Given a data set P, an obstacle set O, and a query li...
Efficient XML filtering has been a fundamental technique in recent Web service and XML publish/subscribe applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of filtering a contin...
Pervasive information systems give an overview of what digital environments should look like in the future. From a data-centric point of view, traditional databases have to be use...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...