Abstract Sensor devices produce data that are unreliable, low-level, and seldom able to be used directly by applications. In this paper, we propose Metaphysical Data Independence (...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Ga...
Mapping composition is a fundamental operation in metadata driven applications. Given a mapping over schemas 1 and 2 and a mapping over schemas 2 and 3, the composition problem is...
Philip A. Bernstein, Todd J. Green, Sergey Melnik,...
The existing predictive spatiotemporal indexes can be classified into two categories, depending on whether they are based on the primal or dual methodology. Although we have gaine...
Several variations of nearest neighbor (NN) query have been investigated by the database community. However, realworld applications often result in the formulation of new variatio...
Mehdi Sharifzadeh, Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan, Cyrus ...
Besides traditional domains (e.g., resource allocation, data mining applications), algorithms for medoid computation and related problems will play an important role in numerous e...
XML query processing based on labeling schemes has been thoroughly studied in the past several years. Recently efficient processing of updates in dynamic XML data has gained more a...