The idea of allowing query users to relax their correctness requirements in order to improve performance of a data stream management system (e.g., location-based services and senso...
Reynold Cheng, Benjamin C. M. Kao, Alan Kwan, Suni...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
In this demonstration paper we present MAPS, a novel system that combines approximate information retrieval and filtering functionality in a peer-to-peer setting. In MAPS, a user...
Christian Zimmer, Johannes Heinz, Christos Tryfono...
Effective integration of heterogeneous data sources has been studied as the most pressing challenge in various fields; such as, high energy physics, astronomy, and life sciences. ...
In this paper we consider a distributed and efficient information dissemination and retrieval system for wireless sensor networks. In such a system each sensor node operates auton...