The wide spread use of cellular phones, handheld devices, and GPS-like technology enables location-aware environments where virtually all objects are aware of their locations. Loca...
In an open environment populated by large numbers of services, automated service composition is a major challenge. In such a setting the efficient interaction of directory-based s...
Optimization in sports is a field of increasing interest. A novel problem in sports management is the Referee Assignment Problem, in which a limited number of referees with differe...
Alexandre R. Duarte, Celso C. Ribeiro, Sebasti&aac...
A Data Warehouse DW can be abstractly seen as a set of materialized views de ned over relations that are stored in distributed heterogeneous databases. The selection of views for...
Spyros Ligoudistianos, Timos K. Sellis, Dimitri Th...
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....