XML database systems emerge as a result of the acceptance of the XML data model. Recent works have followed the promising approach of building XML database management systems on un...
Quorum protocols offer several benefits when used to maintain replicated data but techniques for reducing overheads associated with them have not been explored in detail. It is d...
Lei Kong, Deepak J. Manohar, Mustaque Ahamad, Arun...
Due to the huge amount of integrated devices and sensors in everyday objects ubiquitous systems are in vicinity and will be deployed in large scales in the near future. We expect t...
During many crises, access to sensitive emergency-support information is required to save lives and property. For example, for effective evacuations first responders need the name...
Timothy E. Levin, Jeffrey S. Dwoskin, Ganesha Bhas...
With the advance of the Semantic Web, varying RDF data were increasingly generated, published, queried, and reused via the Web. For example, the DBpedia, a community effort to extr...