Current web search engines focus on searching only the most recent snapshot of the web. In some cases, however, it would be desirable to search over collections that include many ...
For the manual semantic markup of documents to become widespread, users must be able to express annotations that conform to ontologies (or schemas) that have shared meaning. Howev...
Presence-sharing is an emerging platform for mobile applications, but presence-privacy remains a challenge. Privacy controls must be flexible enough to allow sharing between both ...
In this paper, we present a technique that generalizes 3D building groups of virtual 3D city models according to a cell structure that is derived from infrastructure networks. In ...
Online transaction processing (OLTP) is a multibillion dollar industry with high-end database servers employing state-of-the-art processors to maximize performance. Unfortunately,...