We consider a near future scenario in which users of a Web 2.0 application, such as a social network, contribute to the application not only data, but also rules which automatical...
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
While sensor networks are going to be deployed in diverse application specific contexts, one unifying view is to treat them essentially as distributed databases. The simplest mech...
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
A promising approach to scaling Web applications is to distribute the server infrastructure on which they run. This approach, unfortunately, can introduce latency between the appl...
Amit Manjhi, Charles Garrod, Bruce M. Maggs, Todd ...