The aim of this work is to provide a robust way for peers with heterogeneous data sources to exchange information in an unreliable network. We address this problem in two ways. Fi...
The problems of query containment, equivalence, and minimization are recognized as very important in the context of query processing, specifically of query optimization. In their...
Abstract— We present a specification language and algorithms for the online and offline monitoring of synchronous systems including circuits and embedded systems. Such monitori...
: Structural queries constitute a special form of content-basedretrieval where the user specifiesa set of spatial constraints among query variables and asks for all configurations ...
Unlike numerical preferences, preferences on attribute values do not show an inherent total order, but skyline computation has to rely on partial orderings explicitly stated by th...