As location-based services on mobile devices are entering more and more everyday life, we are concerned in this paper with finding ways to master the level of quality of location ...
Sophie Chabridon, Cao-Cuong Ngo, Zied Abid, Denis ...
It has been demonstrated that the use of suitable metaphors in the user service interface can have a dramatic effect on the way in which the user perceives the services, depending ...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...
Most database query optimizers use cost models to identify good query execution plans. Inaccuracies in the cost models can cause query optimizers to select poor plans. In this pap...