Distributed databases operating over wide-area networks such as the Internet, must deal with the unpredictable nature of the performance of communication. The response times of acc...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...
A phenomenon appears in a sensor network when a group of sensors persist to generate similar behavior over a period of time. PhenomenaBases (or databases of phenomena) are equippe...
Query optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively using transformation rules usually apply all possible rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is prod...
With the advent of XML as a standard for data representation and exchange on the Internet, storing and querying XML data becomes more and more important. Several XML query languag...
Keyword search is a familiar and potentially effective way to find information of interest that is "locked" inside relational databases. Current work has generally assum...
Mayssam Sayyadian, Hieu LeKhac, AnHai Doan, Luis G...