The Semantic Web is bound to be untrustworthy and inconsistent. In this paper, we present an initial approach for obtaining useful information in such an environment. In particular...
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...
We develop cache-oblivious data structures for orthogonal range searching, the problem of finding all T points in a set of N points in Êd lying in a query hyper-rectangle. Cache...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Lars Arge, Andrew Danner, Bryan...
Given a scene consisting of objects, ray shooting queries answer with the first object encountered by a given ray, and are used in ray tracing and radiosity for rendering photo-r...
Private information about individuals that engage in e-commerce business transactions is of economic value to businesses for market analysis and for identifying possible future par...