Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
Generating a good execution plan for a declarative query has long been a central problem in data management research. With the rise in interest in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) ...
Christian Y. A. Brenninkmeijer, Ixent Galpin, Alva...
We present the InfoBeacons system, in which a peer-to-peer network of beacons cooperates to route queries to the best information sources. The routing in our system uses techniques...
Abstract. Increasing the number of peers in a peer-to-peer network usually increases the number of answers to a given query as well. While having more answers is nice in principle,...
Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uwe Thaden, Wolf-Ti...
We consider an architecture of mediators and wrappers for Internet accessible WebSources of limited query capability. Each call to a source is a WebSource Implementation (WSI) and...
Vladimir Zadorozhny, Laura Bright, Louiqa Raschid,...