This paper introduces a framework for Phenomena Detection and Tracking (PDT, for short) in sensor network databases. Examples of detectable phenomena include the propagation over ...
Mohamed H. Ali, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref, ...
Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
These last years, the evolution of nomadic terminals and mobile networks has yield to the development of the ubiquitous computing. In this context, actual query evaluation and opt...
In Online Analytic Processing (OLAP) deployments, different users, lines of businesses and business units often create adhoc aggregation hierarchies tailor-made for specific report...
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...