Storage Class Memory (SCM) is here to stay. It has characteristics that place it in a class apart both from main memory and hard disk drives. Software and systems, architectures a...
Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Mustafa Canim, Christi...
Provenance is often used to validate data, by verifying its origin and explaining its derivation. When searching for "causes" of tuples in the query results or in genera...
Alexandra Meliou, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Joseph Y. ...
Participatory texture documentation (PTD) is a geospatial data collection process in which a group of users (dedicated individuals and/or general public) with camera-equipped mobi...
Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Houtan Shirani-Mehr, Bei ...
Keyword search has traditionally focussed on retrieving documents in ranked order, given simple keyword queries. Similarly, work on keyword queries on structured data has focussed...
In spatio-temporal applications, moving objects detect their locations via location-aware devices and update their locations continuously to the server. With the ubiquity and mass...
Long-Van Nguyen-Dinh, Walid G. Aref, Mohamed F. Mo...
Consider a universe of tokens, each of which is associated with a weight, and a database consisting of strings that can be represented as subsets of these tokens. Given a query st...
The popularity of location-based services and the need to perform real-time processing on them has led to an interest in queries on road networks, such as finding shortest paths a...
The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and the advances in automated information extraction from Web pages enable the construction of large knowledge ba...
People travel in the real world and leave their location history in a form of trajectories. These trajectories do not only connect locations in the physical world but also bridge ...