Abstract. One approach to system development is to decompose the requirements into features and specify the individual features before composing them. A major limitation of deferri...
Robin C. Laney, Thein Than Tun, Michael Jackson, B...
Preference-based queries often referred to as skyline queries play an important role in cooperative query processing. However, their prohibitive result sizes pose a severe challen...
Abstract— Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have the potential of significantly enhancing our ability to monitor and interact with our physical environment. Realizing a faulttoler...
Iman Saleh, Mohamed Eltoweissy, Adnan Agbaria, Hes...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
The amount and variety of information available today in digital form continue to increase at a rapid rate. To keep pace with these trends, knowledge workers must be empowered wit...