With the increasing amount of text data stored in relational databases, there is a demand for RDBMS to support keyword queries over text data. As a search result is often assemble...
The general problem of answering top-k queries can be modeled using lists of data items sorted by their local scores. The most efficient algorithm proposed so far for answering to...
Structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays have been successfully employed in many applications to locate content. However, they have been less effective in handling massive amounts o...
Abstract--With the advance of wireless communication technology, it is quite common for people to view maps or get related services from the handheld devices, such as mobile phones...
Many location-based services require rich and expressive query language support for filtering large amounts of information. In prominent location-based services thousands of conti...