Extremists’ exploitation of computer-mediated communications such as online forums has recently gained much attention from academia and the government. However, due to the cover...
—We propose a Smart Trend-Traversal (STT) protocol for RFID tag arbitration, which effectively reduces the collision overhead occurred in the arbitration process. STT, a Query Tr...
Materialized views defined over distributed data sources are a well recognized technology for modern applications. Stateof-the-art incremental view maintenance requires O(n2 ) or ...
Sensor networks are unattended deeply distributed systems whose schema can be conceptualized using the relational model. Aggregation queries on the data sampled at each ode are th...
From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...