The popularity of location-based services and the need to do real-time processing on them has led to an interest in performing queries on transportation networks, such as finding s...
Energy costs are quickly rising in large-scale data centers and are soon projected to overtake the cost of hardware. As a result, data center operators have recently started turni...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul A. Shah, Justin Meza, ...
Tattoo images on human body have been routinely collected and used in law enforcement to assist in suspect and victim identification. However, the current practice of matching tat...
Anil K. Jain, Jung-Eun Lee, Rong Jin, Nicholas Gre...
It is well known that transactional and analytical systems each require different database architecture. In general, the database structure of transactional systems is optimized f...
Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), makin...