A Grid Information Service (GIS) stores information about the resources of a distributed computing environment and answers questions about it. We are developing RGIS, a GIS system...
Adaptive query processing in large distributed systems has seen increasing importance due to the rising environmental fluctuations in a growing Internet. We describe Ginga, an ad...
Archival storage of sensor data is necessary for applications that query, mine, and analyze such data for interesting features and trends. We argue that existing storage systems a...
Peter Desnoyers, Deepak Ganesan, Prashant J. Sheno...
Context-awareness has become a desired key feature of today’s mobile systems, yet, its realization still remains a challenge. On the one hand, mobile computing provides great po...
Lukasz Juszczyk, Harald Psaier, Atif Manzoor, Scha...
We present an adaptive distributed query-sampling framework that is quality-conscious for extracting high-quality text database samples. The framework divides the query-based samp...