This work sets the formal bases for building tools that help retrieve classes in object-oriented libraries. In such systems, the user provides a query, formulated as a set of class...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
We study the problem of continuous monitoring of top-k queries over multiple non-synchronized streams. Assuming a sliding window model, this general problem has been a well addres...
Abstract-- An important intrinsic property of any structured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay is multi-hop paths. Understanding their structure helps to solve challenging problems relate...
The management of privacy and security in the context of data stream management systems (DSMS) remains largely an unaddressed problem to date. Unlike in traditional DBMSs where acc...
Rimma V. Nehme, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Elisa Berti...