To demonstrate the practicality of this federated query planning framework, we present results of empirical evaluation of the framework components over a real-world dataset of bibliographic data. These results show that ...

We make rather specific assumptions about the distribution of agents across the geographic map and the likelihood of any pair of them being adjacent. We assume that the agents are nearly evenly spaced across the network. ...

As the network infrastructure grows increasingly more capable of supporting large throughput, other factors such as privacy and latency remain increasingly important in network design. In this thesis, we target two trade-offs: ...

In the context of engineering structures, structural safety, maintenance and life-cycle management processes are a major factor in sustainability. In particular, the aerospace industry is one that depends heavily on ...