We are concerned with the following problem: How do we allow a community of users to access and process diverse data stored in many different formats? Standard data formats and da...
Luc Moreau, Yong Zhao, Ian T. Foster, Jens-S. V&ou...
Schemas evolve over time to accommodate the changes in the information they represent. Such evolution causes invalidation of various artifacts depending on the schemas, such as sc...
This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query...
Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Wei...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
Applications and services in ubiquitous computing systems often interact in a context-dependent, reactive manner. How information flows, and what services communicate when, is det...
Jong Hee Kang, Matthai Philipose, Gaetano Borriell...