Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges as they need to process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents. To deal with this heavy workloa...
Current distributed database and stream processing systems assume that the network connecting nodes in the data processor is "always on," and that the absence of a netwo...
Yang Zhang, Bret Hull, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel M...
RFID technology provides significant advantages over traditional object-tracking technology and is increasingly adopted and deployed in real applications. RFID applications genera...
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Increasingly pervasive networks are leading towards a world where data is constantly in motion. In such a world, conventional techniques for query processing, which were developed...
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...