Query processing in database systems has developed beyond mere exact matching of attribute values. Scoring database objects and retrieving only the top k matches or Pareto-optimal...
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...
In this demonstration we present MAPLE, a scalable peer-to-peer Nearest Neighbor (NN) query system for mobile environments. MAPLE is designed for the efficient sharing of query re...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Chi-Ngai Wan, Haoj...
Many existing privacy-preserving techniques for querying distributed databases of sensitive information do not scale for large databases due to the use of heavyweight cryptographi...
Sherman S. M. Chow, Jie-Han Lee, Lakshminarayanan ...
Recent work on continuous queries has focused on processing queries in very large, mobile environments. In this paper, we propose a system leveraging the computing capacities of mo...