Modeling is used to build structures that serve as surrogates for other objects. As children, we learn to model at a very young age. An object such as a small toy train teaches us...
Many applications compute aggregate functions over an attribute (or set of attributes) to find aggregate values above some specified threshold. We call such queries iceberg querie...
Min Fang, Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Moli...
Traditionally, infinite databases were studied as a data model for queries that may contain function symbols (since functions may be expressed as infinite relations). Recently, th...
One large and quite interesting family of MAS applications is characterized (1) by their large scale in terms of number of agents and physical distribution, (2) by their very dynam...
Web Services are increasingly being used to create a wide range of distributed systems, many of which involve legacy software. Developing service interfaces for these legacy syste...
David E. Millard, Yvonne Margaret Howard, Swapna C...