Large-scale N-body simulations play an important role in advancing our understanding of the formation and evolution of large structures in the universe. These computations require ...
Location-aware environments are characterized by a large number of objects and a large number of continuous queries. Both the objects and continuous queries may change their locati...
Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a ...
Temporal reasoning and temporal query languages present di cult research problems of theoretical interest and practical importance. One problem is the chasm between point-based te...
With the spread of digital cameras, shooting photos has been becoming an everyday affair. However, there are few methods or systems to manage photos simply, and a huge amount of ...