Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
: XML has emerged as the industry standard for representing and exchanging data and is already predominant in several applications today. Business, analytic and structered data wil...
Video-on-demand (VoD) systems have traditionally been built on the client-server architecture, where a video server stores, retrieves, and transmits video data to video clients fo...
Estimating the number of distinct values is a wellstudied problem, due to its frequent occurrence in queries and its importance in selecting good query plans. Previous work has sh...
Abstract—Private data of individuals is constantly being collected, analyzed, and stored by different kinds of organizations: shopping sites to provide better service and recomme...