This paper describes XPeer, a zero-administration system for sharing and querying XML data. The system allows users to share XML data without significant human intervention, and t...
Carlo Sartiani, Paolo Manghi, Giorgio Ghelli, Giov...
This paper presents an efficient tree-based query protocol for tag identification in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems. Instead of reducing collisions, our proposed pro...
A central problem in text-understanding research is the indeterminacy of natural language. Two related issues that arise in confronting this problem are the need to make complex i...
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Carl Weir, Timothy W. Finin...
We have built a multidatabase system to support a financial application that stores historical data used by traders to identify trends in the market. The application has an update...
: We describe the architecture of a relational databasesystem that is extensible by user-defined data types and operations, including relation operations. The central concept is to...