We study the mergeability of data summaries. Informally speaking, mergeability requires that, given two summaries on two data sets, there is a way to merge the two summaries into ...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Graham Cormode, Zengfeng Huang,...
Data is increasingly being bought and sold online, and Webbased marketplace services have emerged to facilitate these activities. However, current mechanisms for pricing data are ...
Database theory and database practice are typically the domain of computer scientists who adopt what may be termed an algorithmic perspective on their data. This perspective is ve...
Nowadays, an increasing number of objects can be represented by their wireless electronic identifiers. For example, people can be recognized by their phone numbers or their phone...
Boying Zhang, Jin Teng, Junda Zhu, Xinfeng Li, Don...
Mobile devices are increasingly being relied on for services that go beyond simple connectivity and require more complex processing. Fortunately, a mobile device encounters, possi...
Cong Shi, Vasileios Lakafosis, Mostafa H. Ammar, E...