Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
Applications and services in ubiquitous computing systems often interact in a context-dependent, reactive manner. How information flows, and what services communicate when, is det...
Jong Hee Kang, Matthai Philipose, Gaetano Borriell...
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
Modern computer work stations provide thousands of applications that store data in >100.000 files on the file system of the underlying OS. To handle these files data process...
Jens-Peter Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Do...
Time-oriented progress estimation for parallel queries is a challenging problem that has received only limited attention. In this paper, we present ParaTimer, a new type of timere...