Extensible Markup Language (XML) is becoming the de facto standard for exchanging information over the Internet, which results in the proliferation of XML documents. This has led ...
Moving objects (e.g., vehicles in road networks) continuously generate large amounts of spatio-temporal information in the form of data streams. Efficient management of such strea...
The growing nature of databases, and the flexibility inherent in the SQL query language that allows arbitrarily complex formulations, can result in queries that take inordinate am...
An important issue arising from XML query relaxation is how to efficiently search the top-k best answers from a large number of XML data sources, while minimizing the searching cos...
In this paper we present the Brown Dwarf, a distributed system designed to efficiently store, query and update multidimensional data over an unstructured Peer-to-Peer overlay, wit...