This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Estimating the result size of complex queries that involve selection on multiple attributes and the join of several relations is a difficult but fundamental task in database query...
A Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) provides wireless links among proximate devices, usually carried by an individual. As WPAN gains momentum in ubiquitous usage, the interfer...
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Event detection is a major issue for applications of wireless sensor networks. In order to detect an event, a sensor network has to identify which application-specific incident h...
Georg Wittenburg, Norman Dziengel, Christian Warte...