Monitoring frequently occuring items is a recurring task in a variety of applications. Although a number of solutions have been proposed there has been few to address the problem i...
—Many emerging information processing applications require applying various fork and join type operations such as correlation, aggregation, and encoding/decoding to data streams ...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Abstract—Querying non-conventional data sources is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is...
— The increasing heterogeneity, dynamism, and uncertainty of emerging DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) systems imply that an application must be able to detect and adapt t...