Information integration applications, such as mediators or mashups, that require access to information resources currently rely on users manually discovering and integrating them ...
Much of the data that we encounter has a spatial (geographic locational) aspect yet this has not been readily exploited by traditional RDBMS. Over the past five years there has be...
The need for fast and vast dissemination of research results has led a new trend such that more number of authors post their documents to personal or group Web spaces so that other...
Industrial Information Grid (IIG) is a special kind of Grid system, the users of which exclusively own geographically distributed resources for Web service applications and try to...
Jianfeng Zhan, Gengpu Liu, Lei Wang, Bibo Tu, Yi J...
Nowadays, images have become widely available on the World Wide Web (WWW). It’s essential to develop effective ways for managing and retrieving such abundant images. Advantageou...