—IP networks, composing the Internet, form a central part of the information infrastructure of the modern society. Integrated approaches to the assessment of their dependability ...
Motivated by the needs for efficient indexing structures adapted to real applications in video database, we present a new indexing structure named Kpyr. In Kpyr, we use a clusteri...
In this paper, we present an approach to global transactionmanagementinworkflowenvironments.Thetransaction mechanism is based on the well-known notion of compensation, but extended...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jochem Vonk, Peter M. G. Ape...
Information warfare has surfaced as an emerging concept that affects not only military institutions but ordinary organisations as well. Information warfare in itself consists of v...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...