Location-based spatial queries (LBSQs) refer to spatial queries whose answers rely on the location of the inquirer. Efficient processing of LBSQs is of critical importance with th...
Abstract The protection of customer privacy is a fundamental issue in today's corporate marketing strategies. Not surprisingly, many research efforts have proposed new privacy...
We present GPUQP, a relational query engine that employs both CPUs and GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) for in-memory query co-processing. GPUs are commodity processors traditiona...
Rui Fang, Bingsheng He, Mian Lu, Ke Yang, Naga K. ...
Indexing XML is crucial for efficient XML query processing. We propose a compact tree (Ctree) for XML indexing, which provides not only concise path summaries at group level but a...
In practice, a pure top-down and refinement-based development process is not applicable. A more iterative and incremental approach is usually applied with respect to changing req...