Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
XML documents are normally stored as plain text files. Hence, the natural and most convenient way to update XML documents is to simply edit the text files. But efficient query eva...
Barbara Catania, Wen Qiang Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Xi...
— Context information brings new opportunities for efficient and effective system resource management of mobile devices. In this work we focus on the use of context information t...
Routing is one of the most challenging open problems in disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) because of the shortlived wireless connectivity environment. To deal with this issue, r...
Distributed storage systems often use data replication to mask failures and guarantee high data availability. Node failures can be transient or permanent. While the system must ge...
Jing Tian, Zhi Yang, Wei Chen, Ben Y. Zhao, Yafei ...