The most costly spatial operation in spatial databases is a spatial join with combines objects from two data sets based on spatial predicates. Even if the execution time of sequen...
We consider spatio-temporal databases supporting spatial objects with continuously changing position and extent, termed moving objects databases. We formally define a data model f...
Time-parameterized queries (TP queries for short) retrieve (i) the actual result at the time that the query is issued, (ii) the validity period of the result given the current mot...
As more information sources become available in multimedia systems, the development of multimedia database management systems (MDBMSs) to efficiently model and search multimedia ...
Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Rangasami L. Kashya...
The wide spread of location-based services results in a strong market for location-detection devices (e.g., GPS-like devices, RFIDs, handheld devices, and cellular phones). Example...