The availability of summary data for XML documents has many applications, from providing users with quick feedback about their queries, to cost-based storage design and query opti...
Juliana Freire, Jayant R. Haritsa, Maya Ramanath, ...
Abstract— This paper presents scheduling strategies for sensing workload in wireless sensor networks using Divisible Load Theory (DLT), which offers a tractable model and realist...
— A smart house can be regarded as a surveillance environment in which the person being observed carries out activities that range from intimate to more public. What can be obser...
Simon Moncrieff, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff A. W. Wes...
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...
Mobile devices are treasure boxes of personal information containing user’s context, personal schedule, diary, short messages, photos, and videos. Also, user’s usage informatio...