Abstract--Amazon, Google, and IBM now sell cloud computing services. We consider the setting of a for-profit business selling data stream monitoring/management services and we inve...
Abstract—A text filtering system monitors a stream of incoming documents, to identify those that match the interest profiles of its users. The user interests are registered at ...
Networks of sensors are used in many different fields, from industrial applications to surveillance applications. A common feature of these applications is the necessity of a mo...
Abstract. Existing approaches to the management of streaming positional updates generally assume that all active user requests have equal importance, ignoring the possibility of an...
Recently, systems providing access to extremely large data collections, managed in a distributed manner, gain emerging attention. A promising approach to implement the physical la...