Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems suffer from the overspecification of query results due to the fact that queries are conjunctive and the descriptions of shared files are sparse. ...
Increasing prevalence of large-scale distributed monitoring and computing environments such as sensor networks, scientific federations, Grids etc., has led to a renewed interest in...
In distributed stream processing environments, large numbers of continuous queries are distributed onto multiple servers. When one or more of these servers become overloaded due t...
Is it possible to use sense inventories to improve Web search results diversity for one word queries? To answer this question, we focus on two broad-coverage lexical resources of ...
This paper proposes a novel secure query processing model for semantic sensor networks. A semantic sensor network (SSN) is a sensor network which includes semantics of sensory dat...