Many world wide web applications require access, transfer, and synchronization of large multimedia data objects (MDOs) (such as, audio, video, and images) across the communication...
Keyword search is widely recognized as a convenient way to retrieve information from XML data. In order to precisely meet users' search concerns, we study how to effectively r...
Zhifeng Bao, Jiaheng Lu, Tok Wang Ling, Liang Xu, ...
In this paper, a signature file method for indexing document database systems is presented. For this purpose, the concept of presentative word hierarchy is introduced, based on whi...
Passive RFID technology and unobtrusive Bluetoothenabled active tags are means to augment products and everyday objects with information technology invisible to human users. This ...
Abstract— Highly heterogeneous robotic systems are becoming increasingly common, as are robotic systems integrated with smart environments. In such distributed systems, there are...