Abstract. Simultaneous tracking of multiple persons in real world environments is an active research field and several approaches have been proposed, based on a variety of features...
Efficiently finding Web services on the Web is a challenging issue in service-oriented computing. Currently, UDDI is a standard for publishing and discovery of Web services, and U...
“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
The need to improve a suboptimal execution plan picked by the query optimizer for a repeatedly run SQL query arises routinely. Complex expressions, skewed or correlated data, and ...
To enable information integration, schema matching is a critical step for discovering semantic correspondences of attributes across heterogeneous sources. As a new attempt, this p...