The next-generation of wireless sensor platforms allows for more advanced in-network data processing. The central challenge remains energy and communication efficiency. This paper...
We present a novel framework for mapping between any combination of XML and relational schemas, in which a high-level, userspecified mapping is translated into semantically meanin...
Terrain-aided navigation is a database application in which an aeroplane locates itself by matching the height trajectory with a terrain-elevation map on board the aircraft. Witho...
Background: Biologists are often interested in performing a simple database search to identify proteins or genes that contain a well-defined sequence pattern. Many databases do no...
Many data-driven social and Web applications involve collaboration and coordination. The vision of declarative data-driven coordination (D3C), proposed in [9], is to support coord...