We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of...
The rise of smartphones equipped with various sensors has enabled personalization of various applications based on user contexts extracted from sensor readings. At the same time i...
Modern database applications like geographic information systems, multimedia databases, and digital libraries dealing with huge volumes of high dimensional data, make use of multi...
Prior work on computing queries from materialized views has focused on views defined by expressions consisting of selection, projection, and inner joins, with an optional aggrega...
We propose CLEAR (Context and Location-based Efficient Allocation of Replicas), a dynamic replica allocation scheme for improving data availability in mobile ad-hoc peer-to-peer (M...