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SIGMOD
2002
ACM
112views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
16 years 6 months ago
Minimal probing: supporting expensive predicates for top-k queries
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Seung-won Hwang
ISRR
2005
Springer
138views Robotics» more  ISRR 2005»
16 years 21 hour ago
One Is Enough!
We postulate that multi-wheel statically-stable mobile robots for operation in human environments are an evolutionarydead end. Robots of this class tall enough to interact meaning...
Tom Lauwers, George Kantor, Ralph L. Hollis
VLDB
2005
ACM
105views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
16 years 3 hour ago
Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly
The Web has been rapidly “deepened” by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query forms. Helping users query alternative “deep Web” sources in ...
Zhen Zhang, Bin He, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
ICA3PP
2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
InterCloud: Utility-Oriented Federation of Cloud Computing Environments for Scaling of Application Services
Abstract. Cloud computing providers have setup several data centers at different geographical locations over the Internet in order to optimally serve needs of their customers aroun...
Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Rodrigo N. Calheiros
ICIW
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Towards a Disciplined Engineering of Adaptive Service-Oriented Business Processes
Today’s cross-organizations are increasingly coordinating their capabilities in the quest of dynamically adaptable and thus highly competitive realistic services. Unfortunately,...
Nasreddine Aoumeur, Kamel Barkaoui