This paper proposes and evaluates Prefetching B+ -Trees pB+ -Trees, which use prefetching to accelerate two important operations on B+ -Tree indices: searches and range scans. To ...
Updating XML documents submitted to schema constraints requires incremental validation, i.e. checking the parts of the document concerned by the updates. We propose to correct sub...
In this paper we present a scalable and distributed access structure for similarity search in metric spaces. The approach is based on the Content– addressable Network (CAN) parad...
This paper presents PrivacyGrid - a framework for supporting anonymous location-based queries in mobile information delivery systems. The PrivacyGrid framework offers three unique...
The skyline of a set P of multi-dimensional points (tuples) consists of those points in P for which no clearly better point in P exists, using component-wise comparison on domains ...