In this work, we focus on managing scientific environmental data, which are measurement readings collected from wireless sensors. In environmental science applications, raw sensor...
Current weak consistency semantics provide worst-case guarantees to clients. These guarantees fail to adequately describe systems that provide varying levels of consistency in the...
Amitanand S. Aiyer, Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Me...
Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) must support optimized execution scheduling of multiple continuous queries on massive, and frequently bursty, data streams. Previous approac...
Methods of retrieving images that incorporate humangenerated metadata, such as keyword annotation and collaborative filtering, are less vulnerable to the semantic gap than content...
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a metadata model and language recommended by the W3C. This paper presents a framework to incorporate temporal reasoning into RDF, yieldi...