With wireless communications and mobile hand-held devices becoming a reality, new applications where users can have access to information anytime, anywhere are made possible. To d...
This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
Service morphing is a set of techniques used to continuously meet an application’s Quality of Service (QoS) needs, in the presence of run-time variations in service locations, p...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Sandip Agar...
Nearest-neighbor queries are an important query type for commonly used feature databases. In many different application areas, e.g. sensor databases, location based services or fac...
An important database primitive for commonly used feature databases is the similarity join. It combines two datasets based on some similarity predicate into one set such that the n...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...