—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
Adaptive indexing is characterized by the partial creation and refinement of the index as side effects of query execution. Dynamic or shifting workloads may benefit from prelimi...
Stratos Idreos, Stefan Manegold, Harumi A. Kuno, G...
Abstractions as the Foundation for Storage Infrastructure John MacCormick, Nick Murphy, Marc Najork, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, and Lidong Zhou Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Wr...
John MacCormick, Nick Murphy, Marc Najork, Chandra...
RDF Schema (RDFS) as a lightweight ontology language is gaining popularity and, consequently, tools for scalable RDFS inference and querying are needed. SPARQL has become recently ...
Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Krennwallner, Alessan...
Abstract— This paper studies the sequential object recognition problem faced by a mobile robot searching for specific objects within a cluttered environment. In contrast to curr...