Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
A variety of real-world applications share the property that data arrives in form of transient streams. Data stream management systems (DSMS) provide convenient solutions to the p...
We consider queries which originate from a mobile unit and whose result depends on the location of the user who initiates the query. Example of such a query is How many people are ...
Sanjay Kumar Madria, Bharat K. Bhargava, Evaggelia...
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in designing algorithms for querying and analyzing streaming data (i.e., data that is seen only once in a fixed order) with only...
Alin Dobra, Minos N. Garofalakis, Johannes Gehrke,...