– Wireless mobile access to the Internet is an indispensable tool for private and corporate users alike; but both industry and academia recognize the need for better service. Imp...
Tweets are the most up-to-date and inclusive stream of information and commentary on current events, but they are also fragmented and noisy, motivating the need for systems that c...
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...
As technical systems keep growing more complex and sophisticated, designing software for the safety-critical coordination between their components becomes increasingly difficult....
Holger Giese, Stefan Henkler, Martin Hirsch, Flori...
abstraction for modeling these problems is to view the Web as a collection of (usually small and heterogeneous) databases, and to view programs that extract and process Web data au...