In practical applications, Wireless Sensor Networks generate massive data streams with the dual attributes in geography and optimization domain. Energy source of sensor nodes in W...
Policy teaching considers a Markov Decision Process setting in which an interested party aims to influence an agent’s decisions by providing limited incentives. In this paper, ...
Materialized views and view maintenance are important for data warehouses, retailing, banking, and billing applications. We consider two related view maintenance problems: 1) how ...
Latha S. Colby, Timothy Griffin, Leonid Libkin, In...
We present a new multi-dimensional data structure, which we call the skip quadtree (for point data in R2) or the skip octree (for point data in Rd, with constant d > 2). Our da...
David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich, Jonathan Z. S...
This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desir...