We introduce a declarative approach for a coherent composition of autonomous databases. For this we use ID-logic, a formalism that extends classical logic with inductive definitio...
Bert Van Nuffelen, Ofer Arieli, Alvaro Corté...
In the classical database world, information access has been based on a paradigm that involves structured, schema-aware, queries and tabular answers. In the current environment, h...
Performance evaluation is an important issue in Web search engine researches. Traditional evaluation methods rely on much human efforts and are therefore quite time-consuming. Wit...
Yiqun Liu, Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyu...
Online Scientific Applications (OSA) require statistical analysis of large multidimensional datasets. Towards this end, we have designed and developed a data storage and retrieval...
Networks of sensors arise naturally in many different fields, from industrial applications (e.g., monitoring of environmental parameters in a chemical plant) to surveillance appl...