The problem of eciently retrieving and ranking documents from a huge collection according to their relevance to a research topic is addressed. A broad class of queries is dened a...
In an object-relational database management system, a query optimizer requires users to provide cost models of userdefined functions. The traditional approach is analytical, that...
We consider the general problem of tracking moving objects in sensor networks. The specific application we consider is that of tracking a chemical plume moving over a large infra...