Social TV was named one of the ten most important emerging technologies in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Manufacturers of set-top boxes and televisions have recently started ...
With the emergence of the e-Catalog, there has been an increasingly wide application of commodities query in distributed environment in the field of e-commerce. But e-Catalog is o...
Donglin Chen, Xiaofei Li, Yueling Liang, Jun Zhang
We consider an environment where one or more servers carry databases that are of interest to a community of clients. The clients are only intermittently connected to the server fo...
Sameer Mahajan, Michael J. Donahoo, Shamkant B. Na...
Random sampling is a popular technique for providing fast approximate query answers, especially in data warehouse environments. Compared to other types of synopses, random sampling...
Quorum protocols offer several benefits when used to maintain replicated data but techniques for reducing overheads associated with them have not been explored in detail. It is d...
Lei Kong, Deepak J. Manohar, Mustaque Ahamad, Arun...