In this paper, we present a novel adaptive thresholding technique based upon an anisotropic diffusionmodel, whichmay be referred to as the anti-geometric heat flow. In contrast to...
A distributed data-stream architecture finds application in sensor networks for monitoring environment and activities. In such a network, large numbers of sensors deliver continu...
Intelligent access to information requires semantic integration of structured databases with unstructured textual resources. While the semantic integration problem has been widely...
The XML Wrapper is a new feature of the federated database capabilities of DB2/UDB v8. It enables users and applications to issue SQL queries against XML data from a variety of so...
We study cryptographic modeling and encryption-based design techniques for guaranteeing privacy of data that is first stored in some type of computer memory and then deleted. We ...