One important application of wireless sensor networks is tracking moving objects. The recent progress has made it possible for tiny sensors to have more computing power and storag...
E-Services are becoming as promising technology for the effective automation of application integration across Web. They build upon XML, as data format for exchanging messages bet...
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...
All existing proposals for querying XML (e.g., XQuery) rely on a pattern-specification language that allows (1) path navigation and branching through the label structure of the XM...