We present the systematic design and development of a distributed query scheduling service DQS in the context of DIOM, a distributed and interoperable query mediation system 26 ...
XQuery is a powerful XML query language with many features and syntactic constructs. For many common queries we do not need all the expressive power of XQuery. We investigate the ...
Jan Hidders, Stefania Marrara, Jan Paredaens, Roel...
Abstract-- In sensor environments and moving robot applications, the position of an object is often known imprecisely because of measurement error and/or movement of the object. In...
Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SP...
Paul R. Smart, Alistair Russell, Dave Braines, Yan...
: Distributed top-k query processing is increasingly becoming an essential functionality in a large number of emerging application classes. This paper addresses the efficient alge...