Abstract. We describe a novel approach for constructing a single spanning tree for data aggregation towards a sink node. The tree is universal in the sense that it is static and in...
Srinivasagopalan Srivathsan, Costas Busch, S. Sith...
Metaheuristics represent an important class of techniques to solve, approximately, hard combinatorial optimization problems for which the use of exact methods is impractical. In t...
Alexandre Plastino, Erick R. Fonseca, Richard Fuch...
—Sampling is used as a universal method to reduce the running time of computations – the computation is performed on a much smaller sample and then the result is scaled to comp...
Heavy hitters, which are items occurring with frequency above a given threshold, are an important aggregation and summary tool when processing data streams or data warehouses. Hie...
John Hershberger, Nisheeth Shrivastava, Subhash Su...
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...