—We envision a two-tier sensor network which consists of resource-rich master nodes at the upper tier and resourcepoor sensor nodes at the lower tier. Master nodes collect data f...
Abstract—We target a two-tier sensor network with resourcerich master nodes at the upper tier and resource-poor sensor nodes at the lower tier. Master nodes collect data from sen...
When searching large hypertext document collections, it is often possible that there are too many results available for ambiguous queries. Query refinement is an interactive proce...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
Dataspaces are collections of heterogeneous and partially unstructured data. Unlike data-integration systems that also offer uniform access to heterogeneous data sources, dataspac...