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8 Conclusions and future work In this paper, we present an innovative framework for efficiently monitoring WSNs, to achieve both efficiency and query result quality. Our framework, coined KSpot, Distrib Parallel Databases (2011) 29: 113–150 147 utilizes a novel top-k query processing algorithm we developed, in conjunction with the concept of in-network views, in order to minimize the cost of query execution. In particular, we formulate the problem of constructing a hierarchy of recursively defined top-k views. We then describe the MINT Views algorithm that identifies the K highest-ranke