—Location information is necessarily uncertain when objects are constantly moving. The cost can be high to maintain precise locations at the application server for all the object...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
In this paper, we propose a stochastic model to describe how search service providers charge client companies based on users' queries for the keywords related to these compan...
This paper formulates the problem of object categorization in the discriminant analysis framework focusing on transforming visual feature data so as to make it conform to the comp...