This paper considers a multi-query optimization issue for distributed similarity query processing, which attempts to exploit the dependencies in the derivation of a query evaluati...
Concurrent action execution is important for plan-length minimization. However, action specifications are often limited to avoid conflicts arising from precondition/effect inter...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Constraint satisfaction has been applied with great success in closed-world scenarios, where all options and constraints are known from the beginning and fixed. With the internet,...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) deployed for missioncritical applications face the fundamental challenge of meeting stringent spatiotemporal performance requirements using nodes w...
Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, Ke Shen, Qingfeng Hu...