Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Data broadcasting is well known for its excellent scalability. Multi-dimensional range queries, such as spatial range queries of geographical information for location dependent se...
We consider spatial databases and queries definable using first-order logic and real polynomial inequalities. We are interested in topological queries: queries whose result only ...
In spatiotemporal applications, meaningful changes vary according to object type, level of detail, and nature of application. In this paper, we introduce a dynamic classification ...
Giorgos Mountrakis, Peggy Agouris, Anthony Stefani...
Abstract-- Classification hierarchies are trees where links codify the fact that a node lower in the hierarchy contains documents whose contents are more specific than those one le...