Abstract—In the context of service composition and orchestration, service invocation is typically scheduled according to execution plans, whose topology establishes whether diffe...
Estimating the number of distinct values is a wellstudied problem, due to its frequent occurrence in queries and its importance in selecting good query plans. Previous work has sh...
Dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) offer an elegant way to integrate various aspects of language in one model. Many existing algorithms developed for learning and inference in DBNs ...
In this paper, we study the use of semantic information to improve performance of transparent query caching for dynamic content web sites. We observe that in dynamic content web a...
Mobile transactions for updating spatial data are long-lived transactions that update local copies of the mobile platforms on disconnection. Since a mobile transaction is physicall...