Relational databases are periodically vacuumed to remove tuples that have expired. During the discovery phase of litigation, plaintiffs ask defendants for access to information re...
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
Energy conservation without performance degradation is an important goal for battery-operated computers, such as laptops and hand-held assistants. In this paper we determine the p...
Taliver Heath, Eduardo Pinheiro, Jerry Hom, Ulrich...
This demonstration presents FlexPref, a framework implemented inside the DBMS query processor that enables efficient and extensible preference query processing. FlexPref provides ...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
In [7] Maria I. Sessa extended the SLD resolution principle with the ability of performing approximate reasoning and flexible query answering. The operational mechanism of similar...