While there are many proposals for path indexes on XML documents, none of them is perfectly suited for indexing large-scale collections of interlinked XML documents. Existing strat...
Recent work on client-server data-shipping OODBs has demonstratedthe usefulnessof localdatacachingat clientsites. In addition to data caching, index caching can provide substantia...
Wireless data broadcast has received a lot of attention from industries and academia in recent years. Access efficiency and energy conservation are two critical performance concer...
A location-based service (LBS) provides information based on the location information specified in a query. Nearest-neighbor (NN) search is an important class of queries supported ...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
The Portuguese construction industry is, in an attempt to keep up with market demands, striving to maintain its competitiveness. The communication practices and policies throughou...