Distributed systems using mobile computing do not have the traditional ACID properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability), and, therefore, consistency problems may...
This paper presents a first step towards a security model that defines access control for logical document structures. el benefits from roles to abstract from users and from secur...
This paper describes the application of techniques derived from text retrieval research to the content-based querying of image databases. Specically, the use of inverted les, fre...
We introduce query-free information retrieval, a paradigm in which queries are constructed autonomously and information relevant to a user is offered without explicit request. Que...
Full-text information retrieval systems have traditionally been designed for archival environments. They often provide little or no support for adding new documents to an existing...