Multimedia Database Management Systems (MMDBMS) have to efficiently provide the specific functionalities required by time-dependent multimedia data types. During presentation play...
When integrating data from heterogeneous sources, it is often necessary to transform both the schemas and the data from the underlying sources in order to present the integrated d...
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
This paper proposes CADRE (Collaborative Allocation and Deallocation of Replicas with Efficiency), a dynamic replication scheme for improving the typically low data availability ...
Consider a database most of whose entries are marked but the precise fraction of marked entries is not known. What is known is that the fraction of marked entries is 1 − , where ...