Volunteer-based grid computing resources are characteristically volatile and frequently become unavailable due to the autonomy that owners maintain over them. This resource volati...
The traditional architecture for a DBMS engine has the recovery, concurrency control and access method code tightly bound together in a storage engine for records. We propose a di...
David B. Lomet, Alan Fekete, Gerhard Weikum, Micha...
In Mobile Sensor Network (MSN) applications, sensors move to increase the area of coverage and/or to compensate for the failure of other sensors. In such applications, loss or cor...
Le Gruenwald, Md. Shiblee Sadik, Rahul Shukla, Han...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
Geospatial data sharing is an increasingly important subject as large amount of data is produced by variety of sources, stored in incompatible formats, and accessible through diffe...