Database systems frequently have to execute a set of related queries, which share several common subexpressions. Multi-query optimization exploits this, by finding evaluation plan...
Nilesh N. Dalvi, Sumit K. Sanghai, Prasan Roy, S. ...
Energy consumption of mobile readers is becoming an important issue as applications of RFID systems pervade different aspects of our lives. Surprisingly, however, these systems ar...
Directional antennas in ad hoc networks offer many benefits compared with classical omnidirectional antennas. The most important include significant increase of spatial reuse, cov...
In the United States, congress has set goals for the diffusion of e-government initiatives. One of congressÂ’ goals for 2007 was for 80% of tax and informational returns to be fil...
This paper explores scientific metrics in citation networks in scientific communities, how they differ in ranking papers and authors, and why. In particular we focus on network eff...