Querying and searching the Web is an important research field which has drawn a number of concepts from databases and information retrieval fields, but has added its own models, ...
We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by do...
As the size of an RFID tag becomes smaller and the price of the tag gets lower, RFID technology has been applied to a wide range of areas. Recently, RFID has been adopted in the b...
This paper discusses navigation issues in large-scale databases and proposes hypermap visualizations as effective navigational views. We describe the ZTree, a technique that allow...
Content-based dissemination of XML data using the publishsubscribe paradigm is an effective means to deliver relevant data to interested data consumers. To meet the performance ch...