Abstract: Peer data management systems (PDMS) are the natural extension of integrated information systems. Conventionally, a single integrating system manages an integrated schema,...
Ralf Heese, Sven Herschel, Felix Naumann, Armin Ro...
—We envision a two-tier sensor network which consists of resource-rich master nodes at the upper tier and resourcepoor sensor nodes at the lower tier. Master nodes collect data f...
A mode of a multiset S is an element a ∈ S of maximum multiplicity; that is, a occurs at least as frequently as any other element in S. Given an array A[1 : n] of n elements, we...
Timothy M. Chan, Stephane Durocher, Kasper Green L...
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
Motivated by many applications, top-k query is a fundamental operation in modern database systems. Technological advances have enabled the deployment of large-scale sensor networks...