Reservoir sampling is a well-known technique for sequential random sampling over data streams. Conventional reservoir sampling assumes a fixed-size reservoir. There are situation...
Mohammed Al-Kateb, Byung Suk Lee, Xiaoyang Sean Wa...
PageRank-style authority analyses of Web graphs are of great importance for Web mining. Such authority analyses also apply to hot “Web 2.0” applications that exhibit a natural...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Matthia...
Auto-ID technologies allow capturing the time and location of products in the supply chain for tracking and tracing. This paves the way for a variety of business applications, suc...
We introduce the notion of opportunistic networks or oppnets, some of which can be considered a subclass of the peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Initially, a relatively small seed opp...
XML structural joins, which evaluate the containment (ancestor-descendant) relationships between XML elements, are important operations of XML query processing. Estimating structu...