In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which multiple users have distinct preferences. However, making su...
In recent years, web based online map applications have been getting more and more popular, such as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps. Many new Web 2.0 techniques such as mash-up and AJAX w...
A technique called user views has recently been proposed to focus user attention on relevant information in response to provenance queries over workflow executions [1, 2]: Given u...
Olivier Biton, Susan B. Davidson, Sanjeev Khanna, ...
Fast query processing of complex objects, e.g. spatial or uncertain objects, depends on efficient spatial pruning of the objects’ approximations, which are typically minimum bou...
We consider the setting of a web server that receives requests for documents from clients, and returns the requested documents over a multicast/broadcast channel. We compare the q...