Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...
In the classical database world, information access has been based on a paradigm that involves structured, schema-aware, queries and tabular answers. In the current environment, h...
Critical infrastructures like the power grid are emerging as collection of existing separated systems of different nature which are interconnected together. Their criticality becom...
Alessandro Daidone, Andrea Bondavalli, Paulo Ver&i...
Increasingly, 802.11 devices are being used by mobile users. This results in very dynamic wireless channels that are difficult to use efficiently. Current rate selection algorithm...
In this paper, we identify a new problem in wireless sensor networks, distance sensitive service discovery, where nearby or closest service selection guarantee is expected. We pro...