Web2.0 has brought tagging at the forefront of user practises for organizing and locating resources. Unfortunately, these tagging efforts suffer from a main drawback: lack of inter...
— This paper presents Pirrus, a replica management system that addresses the problem of providing data availability on a wireless sensor network. Pirrus uses probabilistic failur...
We study functional and multivalued dependencies over SQL tables with NOT NULL constraints. Under a no-information interpretation of null values we develop tools for reasoning. We...
In this paper, we present a new online failure forecast system to achieve predictive failure management for fault-tolerant data stream processing. Different from previous reactive ...
Xiaohui Gu, Spiros Papadimitriou, Philip S. Yu, Sh...
Spatial Database Management Systems (SDBMS), e.g., Geographical Information Systems, that manage spatial objects such as points, lines, and hyper-rectangles, often have very high ...