Recently, the C# and the VISUAL BASIC communities were tantalized by the advent of LINQ [18]--the Language INtegrated Query technology from Microsoft. LINQ represents a set of lan...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology uses radio-frequency waves to automatically identify people or objects. A large volume of data, resulting from the fast capturing ...
Mashups are situational applications that join multiple sources to better meet the information needs of Web users. Web sources can be huge databases behind query interfaces, which...
Many Geographic Information System (GIS) applications must handle large geospatial datasets stored in raster representation. Spatial joins over raster data are important queries i...
Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this paper, we initiate research on the anytime b...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ni...