Advances of sensor and RFID technology provide significant new power for humans to sense, understand and manage the world. RFID provides fast data collection with precise identific...
Advanced technology in GPS and sensors enables us to track physical events, such as human movements and facility usage. Periodicity analysis from the recorded data is an important...
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...
As massive document repositories and knowledge management systems continue to expand, in proprietary environments as well as on the Web, the need for duplicate detection becomes i...
In a distributed real-time database system (DRTDBS), a commit protocol is required to ensure transaction failure atomicity. If data conflicts occur between executing and committin...
Kam-yiu Lam, Chung-Leung Pang, Sang Hyuk Son, Jian...