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2 Citations
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IJA: An Efficient Algorithm for Query Processing in Sensor Networks

  • Hyun Chang Lee,
  • Young Jae Lee,
  • Ji Hyang Lim and
  • Dong Hwa Kim

28 January 2011

One of main features in sensor networks is the function that processes real time state information after gathering needed data from many domains. The component technologies consisting of each node called a sensor node that are including physical sens...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,334 Views
32 Pages

11 September 2022

Recently, studies on secure database outsourcing have been highlighted for the cloud computing environment. A few secure Top-k query processing algorithms have been proposed in the encrypted database. However, the previous algorithms can support eith...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Trustworthiness: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,214 Views
19 Pages

A PID-Based kNN Query Processing Algorithm for Spatial Data

  • Baiyou Qiao,
  • Ling Ma,
  • Linlin Chen and
  • Bing Hu

9 October 2022

As a popular spatial operation, the k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) query is widely used in various spatial application systems. How to efficiently process a kNN query on spatial big data has always been an important research topic in the field of spatial...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Computation to Advance Novel Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,242 Views
21 Pages

23 February 2022

The unprecedented development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology produces humongous amounts of spatio-temporal sensing data with various geometry types. However, processing such datasets is often challenging due to high-dimensional sensor data ge...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,033 Views
19 Pages

The location-based aggregate queries, consisting of the shortest average distance query (SAvgDQ), the shortest minimal distance query (SMinDQ), the shortest maximal distance query (SMaxDQ), and the shortest sum distance query (SSumDQ) are new types o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed and Parallel Architectures for Spatial Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,981 Views
32 Pages

In many spatial applications, users are only interested in data objects that are visible to them. Hence, finding visible data objects is an important operation in these real-world spatial applications. This study addressed a new type of spatial query...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Databases: Design, Management, and Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,102 Views
17 Pages

23 June 2022

Given a set of facilities F and a query point q, a k-farthest neighbor (kFN) query returns the k farthest facilities f1,f1,⋯,fk from q. This study considers the moving k-farthest neighbor (MkFN) query that constantly retrieves the k facilities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
494 Views
33 Pages

GPU-Based Algorithms for Processing the k-CP Query on Spatial Data

  • Ioannis Pateras,
  • Polychronis Velentzas,
  • Michael Vassilakopoulos and
  • Antonio Corral

Algorithms for processing large-scale spatial datasets are of significant interest in both scientific research and industrial applications. The efficient implementation of such algorithms is crucial for modern data-intensive systems, and GPU-based pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spatial Data Science and Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,560 Views
20 Pages

11 December 2015

Big data are everywhere as high volumes of varieties of valuable precise and uncertain data can be easily collected or generated at high velocity in various real-life applications. Embedded in these big data are rich sets of useful information and kn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Managing, Querying and Processing Big Data in Cloud Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,642 Views
21 Pages

Efficient Processing of All Nearest Neighbor Queries in Dynamic Road Networks

  • Aavash Bhandari,
  • Aziz Hasanov,
  • Muhammad Attique,
  • Hyung-Ju Cho and
  • Tae-Sun Chung

17 May 2021

The increasing trend of GPS-enabled smartphones has led to the tremendous usage of Location-Based Service applications. In the past few years, a significant amount of studies have been conducted to process All nearest neighbor (ANN) queries. An ANN q...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Systems Modeling Based on Graph Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,559 Views
10 Pages

28 October 2011

Data centric storages for sensor networks have been proposed to efficiently process multi-dimensional range queries as well as exact matches. Usually, a sensor network does not process only one type of the query, but processes various types of querie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from FGIT 2010)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,493 Views
4 Pages

1 February 2016

Big data (e.g., [1–3]) has become one of the most challenging research topics in current years. Big data is everywhere, from social networks to web advertisements, from sensor and stream systems to bio-informatics, from graph management tools to smar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Managing, Querying and Processing Big Data in Cloud Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,835 Views
14 Pages

MapReduce Algorithm for Variants of Skyline Queries: Skyband and Dominating Queries

  • Md. Anisuzzaman Siddique,
  • Hao Tian,
  • Mahboob Qaosar and
  • Yasuhiko Morimoto

13 August 2019

The skyline query and its variant queries are useful functions in the early stages of a knowledge-discovery processes. The skyline query and its variant queries select a set of important objects, which are better than other common objects in the data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,495 Views
26 Pages

Top-k Spatial Preference Queries in Directed Road Networks

  • Muhammad Attique,
  • Hyung-Ju Cho,
  • Rize Jin and
  • Tae-Sun Chung

Top-k spatial preference queries rank objects based on the score of feature objects in their spatial neighborhood. Top-k preference queries are crucial for a wide range of location based services such as hotel browsing and apartment searching. In rec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Location-Based Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,604 Views
21 Pages

A DFT-Based Running Time Prediction Algorithm for Web Queries

  • Oscar Rojas,
  • Veronica Gil-Costa and
  • Mauricio Marin

4 August 2021

Web search engines are built from components capable of processing large amounts of user queries per second in a distributed way. Among them, the index service computes the top-k documents that best match each incoming query by means of a document ra...

(This article belongs to the Section Network Virtualization and Edge/Fog Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,110 Views
31 Pages

Efficient Group K Nearest-Neighbor Spatial Query Processing in Apache Spark

  • Panagiotis Moutafis,
  • George Mavrommatis,
  • Michael Vassilakopoulos and
  • Antonio Corral

Aiming at the problem of spatial query processing in distributed computing systems, the design and implementation of new distributed spatial query algorithms is a current challenge. Apache Spark is a memory-based framework suitable for real-time and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Large Scale Geospatial Data Management, Processing and Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,148 Views
20 Pages

19 January 2024

Query optimization is one of the key factors affecting the performance of database systems that aim to enact the query execution plan with minimum cost. Particularly in distributed database systems, due to the multiple copies of the data that are sto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Data Mining, Analysis and Modeling Based on Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,304 Views
28 Pages

Efficient Continuous Subgraph Matching Scheme Based on Trie Indexing for Graph Stream Processing

  • Dojin Choi,
  • Somin Lee,
  • Sanghyeuk Kim,
  • Hyeonbyeong Lee and ,
  • Jongtae Lim,
  • Kyoungsoo Bok and
  • Jaesoo Yoo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 April 2023

With the expansion of the application range of big data and artificial intelligence technologies, graph data have been increasingly used to analyze the relationships among objects. With the advancement of network technology and the spread of social n...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of Big Data and Deep Learning in Engineering Analysis and Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,263 Views
20 Pages

2 January 2021

A distributed database model can be effectively optimized through using query optimization. In such a model, the optimizer attempts to identify the most efficient join order, which minimizes the overall cost of the query plan. Successful query proces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Optimization and Control with Real World Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,492 Views
15 Pages

23 October 2014

Recently, developing efficient processing techniques in spatio-temporal databases has been a much discussed topic. Many applications, such as mobile information systems, traffic control system, and geographical information systems, can benefit from e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Data Processing Algorithms in Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,595 Views
20 Pages

Aiming at the problem that the existing spatial keyword group query problem did not consider the query requirements with exclusion keywords and time attributes, a time-aware group query problem with exclusion keywords (TEGSKQ) is proposed for the fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,984 Views
19 Pages

Query Rewriting for Incremental Continuous Query Evaluation in HIFUN

  • Petros Zervoudakis,
  • Haridimos Kondylakis,
  • Nicolas Spyratos and
  • Dimitris Plexousakis

8 May 2021

HIFUN is a high-level query language for expressing analytic queries of big datasets, offering a clear separation between the conceptual layer, where analytic queries are defined independently of the nature and location of data, and the physical laye...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,782 Views
23 Pages

A oneM2M-Based Query Engine for Internet of Things (IoT) Data Streams

  • Putu Wiramaswara Widya,
  • Yoga Yustiawan and
  • Joonho Kwon

27 September 2018

The new standard oneM2M (one machine-to-machine) aims to standardize the architecture and protocols of Internet of Things (IoT) middleware for better interoperability. Although the standard seems promising, it lacks several features for efficiently s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithm and Distributed Computing for the Internet of Things)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,428 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Distributed SPARQL Query Processing Scheme Considering Communication Costs in Spark Environments

  • Jongtae Lim,
  • Byounghoon Kim,
  • Hyeonbyeong Lee,
  • Dojin Choi and ,
  • Kyoungsoo Bok and
  • Jaesoo Yoo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 December 2021

Various distributed processing schemes were studied to efficiently utilize a large scale of RDF graph in semantic web services. This paper proposes a new distributed SPARQL query processing scheme considering communication costs in Spark environments...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,482 Views
17 Pages

26 August 2025

Efficiently identifying subgraphs that match a given query graph within large-scale graphs has become a critical focus in both academic and industrial research. Subgraph matching, a fundamental problem in graph algorithms, facilitates the effective q...

(This article belongs to the Section Randomized, Online, and Approximation Algorithms)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,045 Views
12 Pages

9 January 2024

This paper proposes the Lock-Position-Based RFID Adaptive Parallel Collision Tree (LAPCT) algorithm to address the issues of excessive time slots required in the identification process of collision tree algorithms for multiple tags and the high commu...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,786 Views
23 Pages

Spatiotemporal RDF Data Query Based on Subgraph Matching

  • Xiangfu Meng,
  • Lin Zhu,
  • Qing Li and
  • Xiaoyan Zhang

Resource Description Framework (RDF), as a standard metadata description framework proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is suitable for modeling and querying Web data. With the growing importance of RDF data in Web data management, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,081 Views
18 Pages

10 September 2018

With the rapid development of mobile devices and sensors, effective searching methods for big spatial data have recently received a significant amount of attention. Owing to their large size, many applications typically store recently generated spati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science and Internet of Everything (IoE))
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,461 Views
17 Pages

Querying Workflow Logs

  • Yan Tang,
  • Isaac Mackey and
  • Jianwen Su

25 January 2018

A business process or workflow is an assembly of tasks that accomplishes a business goal. Business process management is the study of the design, configuration/implementation, enactment and monitoring, analysis, and re-design of workflows. The tradit...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,070 Views
20 Pages

On Minimal Unique Induced Subgraph Queries

  • Lincheng Jiang,
  • Xiang Zhao,
  • Bin Ge,
  • Shengze Hu and ,
  • Weidong Xiao,
  • Haichuan Shang and
  • Yumei Jing
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 October 2018

In this paper, a novel type of interesting subgraph query is proposed: Minimal Unique Induced Subgraph (MUIS) query. Given a (large) graph G and a query vertex (position) q in the graph, can we find an induced subgraph containing q with the minimal n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,475 Views
20 Pages

JQPro:Join Query Processing in a Distributed System for Big RDF Data Using the Hash-Merge Join Technique

  • Nahla Mohammed Elzein,
  • Mazlina Abdul Majid,
  • Ibrahim Abaker Targio Hashem,
  • Ashraf Osman Ibrahim and ,
  • Anas W. Abulfaraj and
  • Faisal Binzagr
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 March 2023

In the last decade, the volume of semantic data has increased exponentially, with the number of Resource Description Framework (RDF) datasets exceeding trillions of triples in RDF repositories. Hence, the size of RDF datasets continues to grow. Howev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning, Statistics and Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,008 Views
18 Pages

4 August 2021

Nearest neighbor (NN) and range (RN) queries are basic query types in spatial databases. In this study, we refer to collections of NN and RN queries as spatial proximity (SP) queries. At peak times, location-based services (LBS) need to quickly proce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Localization and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,984 Views
28 Pages

The skyline query processing problem has been well studied for many years. The literature on skyline algorithms so far mainly considers static query points on static attributes. With the popular usage of mobile devices along with the increasing numbe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,478 Views
31 Pages

20 November 2022

In this paper, we propose a new path planning algorithm based on the probabilistic roadmaps method (PRM), in order to effectively solve the autonomous path planning of mobile robots in complex environments with multiple narrow channels. The improved...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,679 Views
10 Pages

1 August 2010

The performance of several Database Management Systems (DBMSs) and Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) queries is dominated by the cost of the sorting algorithm. Sorting is an integral component of most database management systems. Stable sorting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,184 Views
17 Pages

The magnitude of highly dynamic spatial data is expanding rapidly due to the instantaneous evolution of mobile technology, resulting in challenges for continuous queries. We propose a novel indexing approach model, namely, the Velocity SpatioTemporal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GIS Software and Engineering for Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9,753 Views
17 Pages

Efficient and Effective Directed Minimum Spanning Tree Queries

  • Zhuoran Wang,
  • Dian Ouyang,
  • Yikun Wang,
  • Qi Liang and
  • Zhuo Huang

Computing directed Minimum Spanning Tree (DMST) is a fundamental problem in graph theory. It is applied in a wide spectrum of fields from computer network and communication protocol design to revenue maximization in social networks and syntactic pars...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Graph Theory: Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,477 Views
21 Pages

15 May 2025

In today’s data-driven world, algorithms operating with vertically distributed datasets are crucial due to the increasing prevalence of large-scale, decentralized data storage. These algorithms process data locally, thereby reducing data transf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,473 Views
22 Pages

Efficient Reachability Ratio Computation for 2-Hop Labeling Scheme

  • Xian Tang,
  • Junfeng Zhou,
  • Yunyu Shi,
  • Xiang Liu and
  • Lihong Kong

28 February 2023

Reachability queries processing has been extensively studied during the past decades. Many approaches have followed the line of designing 2-hop labels to ensure acceleration. Considering its index size cannot be bounded, researchers have proposed to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Analysis and Security Calculation of Multisource Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,189 Views
20 Pages

The continuous within skyline query is an important type of location-based query, which can provide useful skyline object information for the user. Previous studies on processing the continuous within skyline query focus exclusively on a static road...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,397 Views
10 Pages

Applying the Bell’s Test to Chinese Texts

  • Igor A. Bessmertny,
  • Xiaoxi Huang,
  • Aleksei V. Platonov,
  • Chuqiao Yu and
  • Julia A. Koroleva

28 February 2020

Search engines are able to find documents containing patterns from a query. This approach can be used for alphabetic languages such as English. However, Chinese is highly dependent on context. The significant problem of Chinese text processing is the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information Revolution: Impact to Foundations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,618 Views
19 Pages

19 May 2019

With the increase in mobile location service applications, spatiotemporal queries over the trajectory data of moving objects have become a research hotspot, and continuous query is one of the key types of various spatiotemporal queries. In this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,521 Views
17 Pages

At present, with the explosive growth of data scale, subgraph matching for massive graph data is difficult to satisfy with efficiency. Meanwhile, the graph index used in existing subgraph matching algorithm is difficult to update and maintain when fa...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,467 Views
42 Pages

DISPAQ: Distributed Profitable-Area Query from Big Taxi Trip Data

  • Fadhilah Kurnia Putri,
  • Giltae Song,
  • Joonho Kwon and
  • Praveen Rao

25 September 2017

One of the crucial problems for taxi drivers is to efficiently locate passengers in order to increase profits. The rapid advancement and ubiquitous penetration of Internet of Things (IoT) technology into transportation industries enables us to provid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,463 Views
16 Pages

In modern data management systems, structured query language (SQL) databases, as a mature and stable technology, have become the standard for processing structured data. These databases ensure data integrity through strongly typed schema definitions...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing and Big Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,998 Views
18 Pages

18 May 2022

Searchable encryption (SE) is one of the effective techniques for searching encrypted data without decrypting it. This technique can provide a secure indexing mechanism for encrypted data and utilize a secure trapdoor to search for the encrypted data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Security and Cryptology: Advanced Technologies in Symmetry/Asymmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,806 Views
24 Pages

The internet is surrounded by uncertain information which necessitates the usage of natural language processing and soft computing techniques to extract the relevant documents. The relevant results are retrieved using the query expansion technique wh...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,607 Views
11 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Query Plan Recommendation with Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark

  • Elham Azhir,
  • Mehdi Hosseinzadeh,
  • Faheem Khan and
  • Amir Mosavi

26 September 2022

Access plan recommendation is a query optimization approach that executes new queries using prior created query execution plans (QEPs). The query optimizer divides the query space into clusters in the mentioned method. However, traditional clustering...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,403 Views
22 Pages

23 August 2025

Chatbots, search engines and Database Query Systems are invaluable sources of information for decision-making processes in the data-driven world in which we live today. In this study, we explore the extent to which classical and Quantum Query Systems...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,459 Views
22 Pages

29 September 2021

After the failure of the power system, a large amount of alarm information will flood into the dispatching terminal instantly. At the same time, there are inevitable problems, such as the abnormal operation of the protection and the circuit breaker,...

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