The authors have developed a new approach to database interoperability using the sketch data model. That technique has now been used in a number of applications, but an important ...
The success of Skype has inspired a generation of peer-topeer-based solutions for satisfactory real-time multimedia services over the Internet. However, fundamental questions, suc...
Reconfigurable software is highly desired for automated machine tool control systems for low-cost products and short time to market. In this paper, we propose a software architectu...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Increasing monitoring of transactions, environmental parameters, homeland security, RFID chips and interactions of online users rapidly establishes new data sources and applicatio...