In applications like location-based services, sensor monitoring and biological databases, the values of the database items are inherently uncertain in nature. An important query fo...
Reynold Cheng, Jinchuan Chen, Mohamed F. Mokbel, C...
In a mobile computing system, users carrying portable devices can access database services from any location without requiring a fixed position in the networking environment. Some ...
Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that “the sensornet is a database” is problematic,...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...
Index structures are designed to optimize search performance, while at the same time supporting efficient data updates. Although not explicit, existing index structures are typica...
Duty-cycling in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has both beneficial effects on network lifetime and negative effects on application performance due to the inability of a sensor to ...
Alessandro Giusti, Amy L. Murphy, Gian Pietro Picc...