Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
Business Intelligence (BI) systems address the demands of large scale enterprises for operational analytics, management information and decision support tasks. Building such applic...
In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-03), pp. 93–109, Springer-Verlag LNCS Series. c 2003 by Springer-Verlag. We a...
We present an architectural framework, Garnet, which a data stream centric abstraction to encourage the manipulation and exploitation of data generated in sensor networks. By prov...
— Multi-agent coordination problems can be cast as distributed optimization tasks. Probability Collectives (PCs) are techniques that deal with such problems in discrete and conti...