The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
Current Web Engineering methods develop "closed" web applications from conceptual models. This fact makes difficult the integration and the interoperability of different ...
Victoria Torres, Joan Fons, Oscar Asensi, Vicente ...
Aggregation in traditional database systems is performed in batch mode: a query is submitted, the system processes a large volume of data over a long period of time, and, eventual...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Peter J. Haas, Helen J. Wan...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
One important application of wireless sensor networks is tracking moving objects. The recent progress has made it possible for tiny sensors to have more computing power and storag...