Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
The UQBE is a mashup tool for non-programmers that supports query-by-example (QBE) over a schema made up by the user without knowing the schema of the original sources. Based on a...
Pervasive information systems give an overview of what digital environments should look like in the future. From a data-centric point of view, traditional databases have to be use...
Background: Biological networks offer us a new way to investigate the interactions among different components and address the biological system as a whole. In this paper, a revers...
Dong-Chul Kim, Xiaoyu Wang, Chin-Rang Yang, Jean G...
Virtually all histograms store for each bucket the number of distinct values it contains and their average frequency. In this paper, we question this paradigm. We start out by inv...