We consider the problem of optimizing the number of replicas for event information in wireless sensor networks, when queries are disseminated using expanding rings. We obtain clos...
Much of the world’s data is in the form of time series, and many other types of data, such as video, image, and handwriting, can easily be transformed into time series. This fact...
Infomaster is an information integration system. It provides integrated access to distributed, heterogeneous information sources, thus giving its users the illusion of a centraliz...
For several reasons a database may not satisfy a given set of integrity constraints (ICs), but most likely most of the information in it is still consistent with those ICs; and cou...
The M-tree is a paged, dynamically balanced metric access method that responds gracefully to the insertion of new objects. Like many spatial access methods, the M-tree's perfo...