Location-based services (LBS) are currently receiving world-wide attention as a consequence of the massive usage of mobile devices, but such location services require scalable dis...
P2P Networks are highly dynamic structures since their nodes – peer users keep joining and leaving continuously. In the paper, we study the effects of network change rates on qu...
Abstract. Recently, the database and AI research communities have paid increased attention to ontologies. The main motivating reason is that ontologies promise solutions for comple...
Spatial data are particularly useful in mobile environments. However, due to the low bandwidth of most wireless networks, developing large spatial database applications becomes a c...
Popular XML languages, like XPath, use “treepattern” queries to select nodes based on their structural characteristics. While many processing methods have already been propose...