: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
New challenges to the database field brought about by the rapidly growing area of wireless personal communication are presented. Preliminary solutions to two of the major problems...
Online communities have become popular for publishing and searching content, as well as for finding and connecting to other users. User-generated content includes, for example, pe...
Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebast...
Abstract. As networks continue to grow in size and complexity, distributed network monitoring and resource querying are becoming increasingly difficult. Our aim is to design, build...