We describe and evaluate the performance of a parallel search engine that is able to cope efficiently with concurrent read/write operations. Read operations come in the usual form ...
Materialized views (MV) can significantly improve the query performance of relational databases. In this paper, we consider MVs to optimize complex scenarios where many heterogen...
Leonardo Weiss Ferreira Chaves, Erik Buchmann, Fab...
Medical visual information retrieval has been a very active research area over the past ten years as an increasing amount of images is produced digitally and made available in the ...
A key problem in sensor networks is to decide which sensors to query when, in order to obtain the most useful information (e.g., for performing accurate prediction), subject to co...
To help users cope with information overload, Selective Dissemination of Information SDI will increasingly become an important tool in wide area information systems. In an SDI ser...