Today user-centered information acquisition over collections of complex XML documents is increasingly in demand. To this end, preferences have become an important paradigm enablin...
Subsequence similarity matching in time series databases is an important research area for many applications. This paper presents a new approximate approach for automatic online s...
We address the problem of querying XML data over a P2P network. In P2P networks, the allowed kinds of queries are usually exact-match queries over file names. We discuss the exte...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
RFID middleware systems collect and filter RFID streaming data gathered continuously by numerous readers to process requests from applications. These requests are called continuou...