Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
As the amount of available electronic information is dramatically increasing, the ability for rapid and e ective access to information has become critical. Most traditional inform...
: User-defined data types such as intervals require specialized access methods to be efficiently searched and queried. As database implementors cannot provide appropriate index str...
Christoph Brochhaus, Jost Enderle, Achim Schlosser...
Multidimensional access methods have shown high potential for significant performance improvements in various application domains. However, only few approaches have made their way...
Frank Ramsak, Volker Markl, Robert Fenk, Martin Zi...
Abstract. We consider a setting with numerous location-aware moving objects that communicate with a central server. Assuming a set of focal points of interest, we aim at continuous...