Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
Applications such as traffic management and resource scheduling for location-based services commonly need to identify regions with high concentrations of moving objects. Such quer...
Peer-to-peer databases are becoming prevalent on the Internet for distribution and sharing of documents, applications, and other digital media. The problem of answering large scal...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Va...
Skyline queries are well suited when retrieving data according to multiple criteria. While most previous work has assumed a centralized setting this paper considers skyline queryi...
Zhiyong Huang, Christian S. Jensen, Hua Lu, Beng C...
Given two sets of points P and Q, a group nearest neighbor (GNN) query retrieves the point(s) of P with the smallest sum of distances to all points in Q. Consider, for instance, t...