The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
In analyzing the point-to-point wireless channel, insights about two qualitatively different operating regimes-bandwidth- and power-limited--have proven indispensable in the design...
—Spatial query execution is an essential functionality of a sensor network. Redundancy within a sensor network can be exploited to reduce the communication cost incurred in execu...
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in designing algorithms for querying and analyzing streaming data (i.e., data that is seen only once in a fixed order) with only...
Alin Dobra, Minos N. Garofalakis, Johannes Gehrke,...
Query-oriented summarization aims at extracting an informative summary from a document collection for a given query. It is very useful to help users grasp the main information rel...