There are more spots than immediately obvious in XQuery expressions where order is immaterial for evaluation-this affects most notably, but not exclusively, expressions in the sco...
Optimizing nested queries is an intricate problem. It becomes even harder if in a nested query the linking predicate or the correlation predicate occurs disjunctively. We present ...
In applications that produce a large amount of data describing the paths of moving objects, there is a need to ask questions about the interaction of objects over a long recorded ...
A distributed message delivery system can use replication to improve performance and availability. However, without safeguards, replicated messages may be delivered to a mobile de...
In this paper we study the node distribution of an Rtree storing region data, like for instance islands, lakes or human-inhabited areas. We will show that real region datasets are...