The problem of multi-robot patrol in adversarial environments has been gaining considerable interest during the recent years.In this problem, a team of mobile robots is required t...
Most software engineering techniques that deal with software products customization are based on anticipation: The software designer has to foresee, somehow, the future needs for ...
In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
Abstract Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that "the sensornet is a database" i...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...