—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...
The development of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes has allowed for improved data transmission over a variety of communication media. Although Reed-Solomon decoding provides a powerful def...
Lilian Atieno, Jonathan Allen, Dennis Goeckel, Rus...
We describe the commercial application of agents to the handling of catalogue and stock-control for the selling of books on the internet. The primary characteristic of the target ...