During many crises, access to sensitive emergency-support information is required to save lives and property. For example, for effective evacuations first responders need the name...
Timothy E. Levin, Jeffrey S. Dwoskin, Ganesha Bhas...
Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of se...
We study peer-to-peer ðP2PÞ data integration, where each peer models an autonomous system that exports data in terms of its own schema, and data interoperation is achieved by me...
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lem...
Mobile and pervasive applications frequently rely on devices such as RFID antennas or sensors (light, temperature, motion) to provide them information about the physical world. Th...
Nodira Khoussainova, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Suc...
Abstract. This paper describes aspects of a training environment for crisis decision makers who, notoriously, operate in highly stressful and unpredictable situations. Training suc...
Gabriella Cortellessa, Rita D'Amico, Marco Pagani,...