Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
XML streams, such as RSS feeds or complex event streams, are becoming increasingly pervasive as they provide the foundation for a wide range of emerging applications. An important...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
Hash tables are fundamental data structures that optimally answer membership queries. Suppose a client stores n elements in a hash table that is outsourced at a remote server so t...
The inability to answer proximity queries efficiently for spaces of dimension d > 2 has led to the study of approximation to proximity problems. Several techniques have been pro...
Sunil Arya, Guilherme Dias da Fonseca, David M. Mo...