The recent enormous increase in the availability of mobile devices such as phones, PDAs, webpads, tablet PCs etc. and with it the corresponding demand for interactive multimedia a...
As users get connected with new-generation smart programmable phones and Personal Digital Assistants, they look for geographic information and location-aware services. In such a s...
Parallel bit stream algorithms exploit the SWAR (SIMD within a register) capabilities of commodity processors in high-performance text processing applications such as UTF8 to UTF-...
In this demonstration, we will present LEARNPADS, a fully automatic system for generating ad hoc data processing tools. When presented with a collection of ad hoc data, the system...
The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...