—In mobile environment, it is very common that mobile devices periodically stay in disconnection mode. In a networked world as today, computer users rely on network services so h...
Content identification has many applications, ranging from preventing illegal sharing of copyrighted content on video sharing websites, to automatic identification and tagging of ...
Data warehousing is a software infrastructure which supports OLAP applications by providing a collection of tools which allow data extraction and cleaning, data integration and ag...
Large-scale Grid is a computing environment composed of Internet-wide distributed resources shared by a number of applications. Although WSRF and Java-based hosting environment ca...
In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...