Objective: We present an integrated set of technologies, known as the Hippocratic Database, that enable healthcare enterprises to comply with privacy and security laws without imp...
Existing solutions for top-k queries in wireless sensor networks mainly focused on energy efficiency and little attention has been paid to the response time to answer a top-k que...
Accessing data from numerous widely-distributed sources poses signi cant new challenges for query optimization and execution. Congestion and failures in the network can introduce ...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Anthony Toma...
XML-based data dissemination networks are rapidly gaining momentum. In these networks XML content is routed from data producers to data consumers throughout an overlay network of ...
—The performance of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithms depends strongly upon the interaction among the particles. The existing communication topologies for PSO (e.g. st...