Users need to be strongly involved in the specification process of network information systems. Characteristics of user-driven specification are described, and process composition ...
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Background: Extensive and automated data integration in bioinformatics facilitates the construction of large, complex biological networks. However, the challenge lies in the inter...
The recent proliferation of XML-based standards and technologies for managing data on the Web demonstrates the need for effective and efficient management of treestructured data....
The widespread deployment of sensor networks is on the horizon. One of the main challenges in sensor networks is to process and aggregate data in the network rather than wasting e...