We investigate the problem of atomic commit in transactional database systems built on top of Distributed Hash Tables. Therefore we present a framework for DHTs to provide strong d...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
— Music identification is an effective tool that enables multimedia players to extract a distinct statistical digest of the played content, look up into a music database using t...
We present the design of Scoop, a system for indexing and querying stored data in sensor networks. Scoop works by collecting statistics about the rate of queries and distribution ...
Many aspects of the data integration problem have been considered in the literature: how to match schemas across different data sources, how to decide when different records refer...