an abstract model for information sharing and integration and use it to develop an architecture for building open, component-based, interoperable systems. A geographic information ...
This paper studies aggregate search in transaction time databases. Specifically, each object in such a database can be modeled as a horizontal segment, whose y-projection is its s...
We propose a balanced tree structure overlay on a peer-to-peer network capable of supporting both exact queries and range queries efficiently. In spite of the tree structure caus...
—Caching frequently accessed data items on the client side is an effective technique for improving performance in a mobile environment. Classical cache invalidation strategies ar...
Information management applications exhibit a wide range of query performance and result freshness goals. Some applications, such as web search, require interactive performance, b...
Kimberly Keeton, Charles B. Morrey III, Craig A. N...