In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...
Cross-layer optimization aims at improving the performance of network users operating in a time-varying, error-prone wireless environment. However, current solutions often rely on...
: Implementing systems for emergency response poses various challenges. Information from various sources and systems needs to be integrated, processed, aggregated, and visualized i...
Abstract. This paper analyzes the aggregation of different abstract attack relations over a common set of arguments. Each of those attack relations can be considered as the represe...
The design and development of complex products invariably involves many actors who have different points of view on the problem they are addressing, the product being developed, a...