The emerging paradigms of service oriented architectures and utility-based computing have the potential to greatly reduce the cost of data management. Data management service prov...
A sensor's data loss or corruption, aka sensor data missing, is a common phenomenon in modern wireless sensor networks. It is more severe for multi-hop sensor network (MSN) a...
Le Gruenwald, Hanqing Yang, Md. Shiblee Sadik, Rah...
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
An important way of making interfaces usable by nonexpert users is to enable the use of natural language input, as in natural language query interfaces to databases, or MUDs and M...
Many collections of scienti c data in particular disciplines are available today around the world. Much of this data conforms to some agreed upon standard for data exchange, i.e., ...
George A. Mihaila, Louiqa Raschid, Anthony Tomasic