The XML format has become the standard for data exchange because it is self-describing and it stores not only information but also the relationships between data. Therefore it is u...
To solve this problem, we devised the HS-bitmap index, which is hierarchically comprised of compressed data of summary bits. A summary bit in an upper matrix is obtained by logical...
A location-based service (LBS) provides information based on the location information specified in a query. Nearest-neighbor (NN) search is an important class of queries supported ...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
RFID data are usually regarded as streaming data that are huge and change frequently because they are gathered continuously by numerous readers. RFID middleware filters the data a...
Most modern database applications contain a significant amount of time dependent data and a substantial proportion of this data is now-relative, i.e. current now. While much resea...