— Many novel spatio-temporal applications deal with moving objects. In such environments, a database typically maintains the initial position and the moving function for each obj...
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, Vassilis ...
Thesaurus has been widely used in many applications, including information retrieval, natural language processing, and question answering. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...
Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu,...
Distributed-system observation tools require an efficient data structure to store and query the partial-order of execution. Such data structures typically use vector timestamps to...
Fast retrieval of time series in terms of their contents is important in many application domains. This paper studies database techniques supporting fast searches for time series ...
When a novice needs help, often the best solution is to find a human expert who is capable of answering the novice’s questions. But often, novices have difficulty characterizing...