Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
A tuple t1 of relation R subsumes tuple t2 of R, with respect to a query Q if for every database, tuple t1 derives all, and possibly more, answers to query Q than derived by tuple ...
We introduce a new type of query, called a real-time continuous query (RCQ), that captures the real-time requirements of processing data streams. We develop techniques to efficien...
Dhananjay Kulkarni, Chinya V. Ravishankar, Mitch C...
Workflows often operate in volatile environments in which the component services’ QoS changes frequently. Optimally adapting to these changes becomes an important problem that ...
Girish Chafle, Prashant Doshi, John Harney, Sumit ...
Multiagent distributed resource allocation requires that agents act on limited, localized information with minimum communication overhead in order to optimize the distribution of ...