Abstract There are increasing demands on portable communication devices to run multimedia applications. ISO (an International Organization for Standardization) standard MPEG-4 is a...
The Internet has led to the development of on-line markets, and computer scientists have designed various auction algorithms, as well as automated exchanges for standardized commo...
Data aggregation is a fundamental building block of modern distributed systems. Averaging based approaches, commonly designated gossip-based, are an important class of aggregation ...
We study the problem of generating synthetic databases having declaratively specified characteristics. This problem is motivated by database system and application testing, data ...
Database technology is playing an increasingly important role in understanding and solving large-scale and complex scientific and societal problems and phenomena, for instance, un...