Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...
Recent advances in wireless communications and positioning devices have generated a tremendous amount of interest in the continuous monitoring of spatial queries. However, such app...
Wireless sensor networks have created new opportunities for data collection in a variety of scenarios, such as environmental and industrial, where we expect data to be temporally ...
In data stream processing systems, Quality of Service (or QoS) requirements, as specified by users, are extremely important. Unlike in a database management system (DBMS), a query...
—Top-k query has long been an important topic in many fields of computer science. Efficient implementation of the top-k queries is the key for information searching. With the n...
Hongbo Jiang, Jie Cheng, Dan Wang, Chonggang Wang,...