—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
In this paper, we motivate the importance of the field of mobile computing and survey current practical and formal approaches. We argue that the existing formalisms are not suffic...
Klaus Bergner, Radu Grosu, Andreas Rausch, Alexand...
Semistructured databases are treated as dynamically typed: they come equipped with no independent schema or type system to constrain the data. Query languages that are designed fo...
A data-driven approach can be fruitfully used in the speci cation and automatic generation of data-intensive Web applications, i.e., applications which make large amounts of data ...
The recent trend towards dynamically extensible systems, such as Java, SPIN or VINO, promises more powerful and flexible systems. At the same time, the impact of extensibility on...