In this paper, we focus on an aspect of distributed XQuery processing that involves data exchanges between processor elements. We first address problems of distributed XML query p...
Makoto Yui, Jun Miyazaki, Shunsuke Uemura, Hirokaz...
Context is any information used to characterize the situation of an entity. Examples of contexts includetime, location, identity, and activity of a user. This paper proposes a gene...
Hicham G. Elmongui, Walid G. Aref, Mohamed F. Mokb...
The problem of trajectory similarity in moving object databases is a relatively new topic in the spatial and spatiotemporal database literature. Existing work focuses on the spati...
Elias Frentzos, Kostas Gratsias, Yannis Theodoridi...
The popularity of mobile social networking services (mSNSs) is propelling more and more businesses, especially those in retailing and marketing, into mobile and location-based for...
Cache groups are a powerful concept for database caching, which is used to relieve the backend database load and to keep referenced data close to the application programs at the &q...