We describe the design and implementation of QBISM (Query By Interactive, Spatial Multimedia), a prototype for querying and visualizing 3D spatial data. Our first application is i...
Manish Arya, William F. Cody, Christos Faloutsos, ...
Elevation maps are a widely used spatial data representation in geographical information systems (GIS). Paths on elevation maps can be characterized by profiles, which describe re...
Abstract. Query optimization is an important functionality of modern database systems and often based on estimating the selectivity of queries before actually executing them. Well-...
We are developing a distributed query processor called PIER, which is designed to run on the scale of the entire Internet. PIER utilizes a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) as its comm...
Brent N. Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
Information is valuable to users when it is available not only at the right time but also at the right place. To support efficient location-based data access in wireless data broad...
Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Ken C. K. Lee, Dik L...