A “friend finder” is a Location Based Service (LBS) that informs users about the presence of participants in a geographical area. In particular, one of the functionalities of ...
Evaluating a traditional database query against a data tuple returns a true on match and a false on mismatch. Unfortunately, there are many application scenarios where such an eva...
Consider multiple users searching for a hotel room, based on size, cost, distance to the beach, etc. Users may have variable preferences expressed by different weights on the attri...
Navigational queries on Web-accessible life science sources pose unique query optimization challenges. The objects in these sources are interconnected to objects in other sources, ...
Jens Bleiholder, Samir Khuller, Felix Naumann, Lou...
Building artificial systems using self-assembly is one of the main issues of artificial life [17]. Scientists are trying to understand this process either using experimental appro...