Several applications involve a transient stream of data which has to be modeled and analyzed continuously. Their continuous arrival in multiple, rapid, time-varying and possibly unpredictable and unbounded way make the analysis difficult and opens fundamentally new research problems. Examples of such data intensive applications include stock market, road traffic analysis, whether forecasting systems etc. Data Stream Management Systems are specifically designed for handling continuous data streams. They can handle multiple, time-varying, unpredictable and unbounded streams which cannot be...