E-Commerce can be streamlined if products and services are unambiguously identified with industryagreed XML tags through the coding of products and services according to standard ...
Current research activities in the area of trading digital products usually focus on specific legal or technical problems, neglecting the underlying business models and their impl...
Abstract. Companies in today’s automotive industry are under immense competitive pressure to reduce the length of their product development cycle from initial concept to begin of...
—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
Motivated by applications to sensor networks and privacy preserving databases, we consider the problem of functional compression. The objective is to separately compress possibly c...