An increasing number of business users and software applications need to process information that is accessible via multiple diverse information systems, such as database systems,...
Recently, a new family of massive self-organizing networks has emerged that not only serve as a communication infrastructure, but also mainly as a distributed query processing syst...
Abstract—We are developing a concurrent, agent-based approach to complex systems simulation as part of the CoSMoS project. In such simulations an agent’s behaviour can typicall...
In recent years there has been considerable research on automated selection of physical design in database systems. In current solutions, candidate access paths are heuristically ...
Tracking and tracing individual items is a new and emerging trend in many industries. Driven by maturing technologies such as Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and upcoming s...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alvin Cheung, Karin Kailing, Stefa...