The wide spread use of cellular phones, handheld devices, and GPS-like technology enables location-aware environments where virtually all objects are aware of their locations. Loca...
System developments and research on parallel query processing have concentrated either on "Shared Everything" or "Shared Nothing" architectures so far. While t...
Database queries, in particular, event-driven continuous queries, are useful for many pervasive computing applications, such as video surveillance. In order to enable these applic...
RFID middleware systems collect and filter RFID streaming data gathered continuously by numerous readers to process requests from applications. These requests are called continuou...
We introduce Pulse, a framework for processing continuous queries over models of continuous-time data, which can compactly and accurately represent many real-world activities and p...