The database community has produced extensive research on the concurrency control problem in the context of traditional databases. However, this traditional model is not suitable ...
Flash memory is being rapidly deployed as data storage for mobile devices. Flash memory offers many advantages over hard disk, and considering its rapid technical improvement both...
We consider the problem of characterisation of sequences of heterogeneous symbolic data that arise from a common underlying temporal pattern. The data, which are subject to impreci...
—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
The quality of a local search engine, such as Google and Bing Maps, heavily relies on its geographic datasets. Typically, these datasets are obtained from multiple sources, e.g., ...