Recent research has made it possible to build information agents that retrieve and integrate information from the World Wide Web. Although there now exist solutions for modeling W...
Greg Barish, Dan DiPasquo, Craig A. Knoblock, Stev...
Abstract--This paper tackles a fundamental problem of network planning and dimensioning under EPON-WiMAX integration for next-generation wireless metropolitan-area broadband access...
Bin Lin, Pin-Han Ho, Xuemin Shen, Frank Chih-Wei S...
Semi-join reducers were introduced in the late seventies as a means to reduce the communication costs of distributed database systems. Subsequent work in the eighties showed, howe...
Konrad Stocker, Donald Kossmann, Reinhard Braumand...
: User-defined data types such as intervals require specialized access methods to be efficiently searched and queried. As database implementors cannot provide appropriate index str...
Christoph Brochhaus, Jost Enderle, Achim Schlosser...
A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...