Web service applications integrate explicit client-service interactions with notification-style programming. Such event-driven interactions are often called implicit invocations b...
Integrating mobile computing and localized user interaction into the Internet requires more than simply overcoming pure routing challenges. Apart from issues such as intermittent c...
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
Annals and chronicles may be the foundation of accounting, but writers of stories and histories have long known that they seldom render a satisfactory account of complex events. I...
Existing approaches for the processing of location-dependent queries implicitly assume location data expressed at maximum precision (e.g., GPS). However, there exist applications w...