Social Order becomes a major problem in MAS and in computer mediated human interaction. After explaining the notions of Social Order and Social Control, I claim that there are mult...
Delivering sensed data to the sink reliably in sensor networks calls for a scalable, energy-efficient, and error-resilient routing solution. In this paper, a reliable energy-effic...
Min Chen, Taekyoung Kwon, Shiwen Mao, Yong Yuan, V...
—In reality, spatial objects (e.g., hotels) not only have spatial locations but also have quality attributes (e.g., price, star). An object p is said to dominate another one p , ...
In many database applications involving string data, it is common to have near neighbor queries (asking for strings that are similar to a query string) or nearest neighbor queries...
The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...