There is much effort to develop comprehensive support for the storage and querying of XML data in database management systems. The major developers have extended their systems to h...
Parke Godfrey, Jarek Gryz, Andrzej Hoppe, Wenbin M...
A key challenge in ubiquitous computing is how to manage ambient information about the environment where a variety of devices appear. Traditional capability descriptions are inadeq...
Materialized views, a rdbms silver bullet, demonstrate its efficacy in many applications, especially as a data warehousing/decison support system tool. The pivot of playing materia...
We consider the use of a cluster of PC servers for Application Service Providers where applications and databases must remain autonomous. We use data replication to improve data av...
Classification and change detection of land cover types in the remotely sensed images is one of the major applications in remote sensing. This paper presents a hierarchical framew...