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Wide-area sensor infrastructures, remote sensors, RFIDs, and wireless sensor networks yield massive volumes of disparate, dynamic, and geographically distributed data. As such sen...
Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Joao Gam...