Modern scientific applications consume massive volumes of data produced by computer simulations. Such applications require new data management capabilities in order to scale to te...
A number of researchers have become interested in the design of global-scale networked systems and applications. Our thesis here is that the database community's principles a...
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
This paper presents a geo-temporal gazetteer Web service that provides access to names of places and historical periods, together with the associated geotemporal information. With...
The larger amount of information on the Web is stored in document databases and is not indexed by general-purpose search engines (i.e., Google and Yahoo). Such information is dyna...
Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne E. James, M...