Most future large-scale sensor networks are expected to follow a two-tier architecture which consists of resource-rich master nodes at the upper tier and resource-poor sensor node...
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature, and we can expose this structured data using information extraction technology. By processing a text database with inf...
Structurally recursive XML queries are an important query class that follows the structure of XML data. At present, it is difficult for XQuery to type and optimize structurally re...
Estimating the number of distinct values is a wellstudied problem, due to its frequent occurrence in queries and its importance in selecting good query plans. Previous work has sh...
Clusters are now composed of non-uniform nodes with different CPUs, disks or network cards so that customers can adapt the cluster configuration to the changing technologies and t...
Tobias Mayr, Philippe Bonnet, Johannes Gehrke, Pra...