An increasing number of business users and software applications need to process information that is accessible via multiple diverse information systems, such as database systems,...
The goal of this work is to improve the accuracy (precision and recall) and communication effectiveness of a database system response to a user information request, by utilizing a...
This paper presents PrivacyGrid - a framework for supporting anonymous location-based queries in mobile information delivery systems. The PrivacyGrid framework offers three unique...
We discuss the design of an acquisitional query processor for data collection in sensor networks. Acquisitional issues are those that pertain to where, when, and how often data is...
Samuel Madden, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hell...
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...