Recent research results show that a wireless ad hoc network can exploit controlled node mobility to reduce communication energy consumption. Node movement, however, may consume a ...
Browsing a digital video library can be very tedious especially with an ever expanding collection of multimedia material. We present a novel framework for extracting sub-window sh...
This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query...
Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Wei...
XML languages, such as XQuery, XSLT and SQL/XML, employ XPath as the search and extraction language. XPath expressions often define complicated navigation, resulting in expensive...
Abstract—Introspection is the prerequisite of an autonomic behavior, the first step towards a performance improvement and a resource-usage optimization for largescale distribute...
Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Jing Cai, Alexandru Costa...