Abstract. The needs of efficient and flexible information retrieval on multistructural data stored in database and network are significantly growing. Especially, its flexibility pl...
This article investigates the role of common-knowledge in the principal-agent model under asymmetric information. We treat the problem: How the common-knowledge condition will be a...
Abstract— This paper presents LIVE, a complete DBMS designed for applications with many stored derived relations, and with a need for simple versioning capabilities when base dat...
There are major trends to advance the functionality of search engines to a more expressive semantic level. This is enabled by the advent of knowledge-sharing communities such as W...
We show how the database community’s notion of a generic query interface for data aggregation can be applied to ad-hoc networks of sensor devices. As has been noted in the senso...
Samuel Madden, Robert Szewczyk, Michael J. Frankli...