Recently, skyline queries have attracted much attention in the database research community. Space partitioning techniques, such as recursive division of the data space, have been ...
Optimizing queries that involve operations on spatial data requires estimating the selectivity and cost of these operations. In this paper, we focus on estimating the cost of spat...
In many applications involving continuous data streams, data arrival is bursty and data rate fluctuates over time. Systems that seek to give rapid or real-time query responses in ...
Brian Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Mayur Datar, Rajeev ...
Abstract. Location-based Services are emerging as popular applications in pervasive computing. Spatial k-anonymity is used in Locationbased Services to protect privacy, by hiding t...
The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval. The European Union is a typical example of a multilingual scenario, where multiple users have to de...