Due to the structural heterogeneity of XML, queries are often interpreted approximately. This is achieved by relaxing the query and ranking the results based on their relevance to ...
A fundamental problem in distributed computation is the distributed evaluation of functions. The goal is to determine the value of a function over a set of distributed inputs, in ...
Applications requiring the handling of uncertain data have led to the development of database management systems extending the scope of relational databases to include uncertain (p...
Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Rahul Shah, Sunil ...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
Abstract. The Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) protocol suite currently under standardization by the IETF is designed to build systems providing highly available services by prov...
Thomas Dreibholz, Erwin P. Rathgeb, Michael Tü...