Entity profiling is the task of identifying and ranking descriptions of a given entity. The task may be viewed as one where the descriptions being sought are terms that need to be ...
Maarten de Rijke, Krisztian Balog, Toine Bogers, A...
In a world where all devices will be interconnected, the boundaries between the different devices will start to disappear. Devices will be able to access each other's applica...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
Web prefetching is an attractive solution to reduce the network resources consumed by Web services as well as the access latencies perceived by Web users. Unlike Web caching, whic...
George Pallis, Athena Vakali, Jaroslav Pokorn&yacu...
The situation in engineering security for Web services that access databases is as follows: On the one hand, specifications like WSSecurity are concerned with the security managem...
Martin Wimmer, Daniela Eberhardt, Pia Ehrnlechner,...