Sensor networks, that consist of potentially several thousands of nodes each with sensing (heat, sound, light, magnetism, etc.) and wireless communication capabilities, provide gr...
This paper presents a query optimizer module based on cost estimation that chooses the best filtering step algorithm to perform a specific spatial join operation. A set of express...
Let a tuple of n objects obeying a query graph (QG) be called the n-tuple. The “Ddistance-value” of this n-tuple is the value of a linear function of distances of the n objects...
Antonio Corral, Yannis Manolopoulos, Yannis Theodo...
With the proliferation of geo-positioning and geo-tagging, spatial web objects that possess both a geographical location and a textual description are gaining in prevalence, and s...
Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Christian S. Jensen, Beng Chin ...
: Nowadays, the database characteristics, such as the huge volume of data, the complexity of the queries, and even the data availability, can demand minutes or hours to process a q...
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Rodrigo Salvador Monte...