We envision that in some wireless sensor network applications, such as environmental monitoring, assisted living, and industrial control, handheld devices will be used from time t...
In this paper, we present a query system that has been implemented in a practical biological database - GPCRDB. Distinguishing features of this system include: smart query relaxat...
In order to answer efficiently range queries in 2-d R-trees, first we sort queries by means of a space filling curve, then we group them together, and finally pass them for process...
Existing distributed publish/subscribe systems (DPSS) offer loosely coupled and easy to deploy content-based stream delivery services to a large number of users. However, the lack ...
In order to cope efficiently with simple or complex queries as well as different application requirements (e.g., ad-hoc versus repetitive queries), a query optimizer ought to supp...