Database queries often take the form of correlated SQL queries. Correlation refers to the use of values from the outer query block to compute the inner subquery. This is a conveni...
The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...
Embedded systems are pervasive and frequently used for critical systems with time-dependent functionality. Dwyer et al. have developed qualitative specification patterns to facili...
The proliferation of electronic content has notably lead to the apparition of large corpora of interrelated structured documents (such as HTML and XML Web pages) and semantic annot...
Wireless transmission of a bit can require over 1000 times more energy than a single 32-bit computation. It would therefore seem desirable to perform significant computation to re...