More and more legal information is available in electronic form, but traditional retrieval mechanisms are insufficient to answer questions and legal problems of most users. In the...
Radboud Winkels, D. J. B. Bosscher, A. W. F. Boer,...
In outsourced database (ODB) systems the database owner publishes its data through a number of remote servers, with the goal of enabling clients at the edge of the network to acce...
Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios...
This paper proposes to transform data scanned randomly in a well-defined space (e.g, Euclidean) along a hierarchical irregular pyramidal structure in an attempt reduce search time...
We propose a new distributed, fault-tolerant peer-to-peer index structure called the P-tree. P-trees efficiently evaluate range queries in addition to equality queries.
Adina Crainiceanu, Prakash Linga, Johannes Gehrke,...
This paper introduces a novel type of query, what we name Spatio-temporal Pattern Queries (STP). Such a query specifies a spatiotemporal pattern as a sequence of distinct spatial...
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, Petko Bak...