An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
Abstract Sensor devices produce data that are unreliable, low-level, and seldom able to be used directly by applications. In this paper, we propose Metaphysical Data Independence (...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Ga...
Pervasive Computing envisions distributed applications that optimally leverage the resources present in their ever-changing execution environment. To ease the development of perva...
Marcus Handte, Klaus Herrmann, Gregor Schiele, Chr...
The current trend towards dynamic and highly scalable service provisioning fosters the rise of Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms and so called Compute Clouds. The on-demand p...
Abstract— In many current SoCs, the architectural interface to onchip monitors is ad hoc and inefficient. In this paper, a new architectural approach which advocates the use of a...
Sailaja Madduri, Ramakrishna Vadlamani, Wayne Burl...