Content Management Systems (CMS) store enterprise data such as insurance claims, insurance policies, legal documents, patent applications, or archival data like in the case of dig...
Metric Access Methods (MAM) are employed to accelerate the processing of similarity queries, such as the range and the k-nearest neighbor queries. Current methods improve the quer...
Marcos R. Vieira, Caetano Traina Jr., Fabio Jun Ta...
The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
We consider the problem of maintaining a set of n integers in the range 0::2w ? 1 under the operations of insertion, deletion, predecessor queries, minimum queries and maximum quer...
Emerging applications using miniature electronic devices (e.g., tracking mobile objects using sensors) generate very large amounts of highly dynamic data that poses very high overh...