The data volume of XML repositories and the response time of query processing have become critical issues for many applications, especially for those in the Web. An interesting alt...
—The skip graph, an application-layer data structure for routing and indexing, may be used in a sensor network to facilitate queries of the distributed k-dimensional data collect...
Gregory J. Brault, Christopher J. Augeri, Barry E....
Recent progress of computer and network technologies makes it possible to store and retrieve a large volume of multimedia data in many applications. In such applications, efficien...
RFID technology provides significant advantages over traditional object-tracking technology and is increasingly adopted and deployed in real applications. RFID applications genera...
Yijian Bai, Fusheng Wang, Peiya Liu, Carlo Zaniolo...
In large scale online systems like Search, eCommerce, or social network applications, user queries represent an important dimension of activities that can be used to study the imp...