To improve popular services discovery mechanism (UDDI mainly), we propose an agent-based services discovery mechanism. In this mechanism, services information is stored in distribu...
To compensate for the inherent impedance mismatch between the relational data model (tables of tuples) and XML (ordered, unranked trees), tree join algorithms have become the prev...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
This paper addresses the problem of scatternet formation for singlehop Bluetooth based ad hoc networks, with minimal communication overhead. We adopt the well-known structure de B...
Wen-Zhan Song, Xiang-Yang Li, Yu Wang 0003, Weizha...
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...