Sensor networks and other distributed information systems (such as the Web) must frequently access data that has a high per-attribute acquisition cost, in terms of energy, latency...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Wei Hong, Samuel ...
Generic database replication algorithms do not scale linearly in throughput as all update, deletion and insertion (UDI) queries must be applied to every database replica. The thro...
This paper describes a Web-based query system for semantically heterogeneous government-produced data. Geospatial Web-based information systems and portals are currently being dev...
Nancy Wiegand, Naijun Zhou, Isabel F. Cruz, Willia...
We describe the architecture of a hypertext resource discovery system using a relational database. Such a system can answer questions that combine page contents, metadata, and hyp...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom
— Forecast, detection and warning of severe weather and related hydro-geological risks is becoming one of the major issues for civil protection. The use of computational intellig...
Erika Coppola, Barbara Tomassetti, Marco Verdecchi...