A growing mount of available text data are being stored in relational databases, giving rise to an increasing need for the RDBMSs to support effective text retrieval. In this pape...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are gaining increasing popularity as a scalable means to share data among a large number of autonomous nodes. In this paper, we consider the case in whic...
XML Schema awareness has been an integral part of the XQuery language since its early design stages. Matching XML data against XML types is the main operation that backs up XQuery...
As the scale of modern sensor networks continues to grow, energy consumption, scalability and routing efficiency are becoming key design challenges. Network management plays an im...
In order for pervasive computing to realize its full potential, pervasive applications have to be able to operate without support from fixed communication infrastructure at least ...