The emergence of location-based computing promises new and compelling applications, but raises very real privacy risks. Existing approaches to privacy generally treat people as th...
Karen P. Tang, Pedram Keyani, James Fogarty, Jason...
This work presents a case of an innovative Brazilian experience of use of free software in public administration as an emergent ecosystem, and the attempt to establish a quality f...
Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), also known as data mining, focuses on the computerized exploration of large amounts of data and on the discovery of interesting patterns wi...
In this paper, we focus on an aspect of distributed XQuery processing that involves data exchanges between processor elements. We first address problems of distributed XML query p...
Makoto Yui, Jun Miyazaki, Shunsuke Uemura, Hirokaz...
The quality of a local search engine, such as Google and Bing Maps, heavily relies on its geographic datasets. Typically, these datasets are obtained from multiple sources, e.g., ...