Abstract Existing spatiotemporal indexes suffer from either large update cost or poor query performance, except for the Bx -tree (the state-of-the-art), which consists of multiple ...
A large number of online databases are hidden behind the web. Users to these systems can form queries through web forms to retrieve a small sample of the database. Sampling such h...
Anirban Maiti, Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, Gautam D...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Abstract. Aggregate window queries return summarized information about objects that fall inside a query rectangle (e.g., the number of objects instead of their concrete ids). Tradi...
Abstract. We consider a collaboration of peers autonomously crawling the Web. A pivotal issue when designing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search engine in this environment is query rou...
Sebastian Michel, Matthias Bender, Peter Triantafi...