Abstract— With technology scaling, on-chip power densities are growing steadily, leading to the point where temperature has become an important consideration in the design of ele...
A substantial part of the database research field focusses on optimizing XQuery evaluation. However, optimization techniques are rarely validated by means of cross platform bench...
This paper gives an overview of two middleware systems that have been developed over the last 6 years to address the challenges involved in developing parallel and distributed imp...
Background: Databases containing very large amounts of SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) data are now freely available for researchers interested in medical and/or population g...
In this chapter we discuss various aspects of adaptive mobile guide applications. After having motivated the need for web based mobile applications, we will discuss technologies th...