The Web has been rapidly “deepened” by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query forms. Helping users query alternative “deep Web” sources in ...
In this paper, we address the problem of incrementally maintaining a histogram in response to a non-stationary update process. In relational database systems, this problem can occ...
is the level of abstraction: a logical model ignores the constraints that the underlying database technology imposes and presents a simplified view. Sometimes physical database des...
Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...
We consider the problem of energy-efficient point-to-point transmission of delay-sensitive data (e.g. multimedia data) over a fading channel. We propose a rigorous and unified fra...